I recently wrote a blog about Detroit Public School attendance agents knocking on doors trying to get answers as to why children were not in school on Count Day. Well, now the Detroit Public School system is at it again. This time with a more outrageous form of reprimanding the parents.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy on Tuesday pitched a plan to the Detroit City Council that would require parents to attend at least one parent-teacher conference per school year or spend up to three days in jail.
She has sent her plan to the state legislature and the Wayne County Commission and the national media picked up the proposal as well. Kym Worthy was on Good Morning America just last week defending her plan. (To watch video click here)
What's your take: Should parents be punished for missing teacher conferences? Is jail time an appropriate punishment?
Until Next Time...
Lauren!
Important as parental involvement is in a child's education it seems unprecedented that one could use legislation to make it the law of the land. Kym Worthy does bring up a valid point when she mentions other laws that require parents to enroll their kids in school and not leave them in parked cars. Worthy does say that the parents would have several chances to schedule conferences without penalty and that the parents of children who were already getting good grades would not be affected. I feel like Detroit does need bold moves such as this to make the adults in the city serve the children, something they seem to have a hard time with.
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