Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Estudiantes perdidos--or rather the absent ones!


Student absences.  What is the answer?  Students have their parents call them in ill…and often are absent multiple days in a week.  Sadly, these same students will expect different due dates on assignments, not find out what they missed and fall behind in class without asking for help.  How do we cure the disease of “perezoso” and have our students, if ill, stay home, but also contact your teachers and make sure they talk to their teachers to stay in the loop?  Maybe this falls under responsibility.   When students leave for the job world, one of the most common problems are lack of work ethic.  Now, don’t get me wrong—most of my students have excellent work ethic, but there are always a few no matter what school you are in have attendance problems---what bothers me is how do we correct those few?  This is why my blog is called mi caja de jabón.  Its my soap box.  How do you cure the “absent” problems in schools so that students come to school and stay in school so they can learn?  

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