By John R. Butcher
March 2, 2017 by cranky
The 2016 Superintendent’s Annual Report sets out, at Table 8, the elementary and secondary attendance data by division for the year.
Here are the elementary data.
The yellow bar is Richmond. The red bars, from the left, are the peer cities Norfolk, Newport News, and Hampton.
The Richmond elementary datum is merely discouraging.
The secondary attendance is appalling:
The yellow again is Richmond.
The red, Norfolk, Hampton, and Newport News.
Va. Code § 22.1-258 requires an attendance plan after the fifth unexcused absence and a conference with the parents after the sixth. Upon a further absence, the statute requires either a prosecution of the parents or the filing of a CHINS petition against the student.
When I asked RPS for data on compliance with this statute for 2015, they reported 13,046 five-day attendance plans and 61 CHINS petitions. They had NO RECORD of the number of five, six, or seven day absences and NO RECORD of prosecutions of parents.
We do have some data from earlier years:
Va. Code § 22.1-258 requires an attendance plan after the fifth unexcused absence and a conference with the parents after the sixth. Upon a further absence, the statute requires either a prosecution of the parents or the filing of a CHINS petition against the student.
When I asked RPS for data on compliance with this statute for 2015, they reported 13,046 five-day attendance plans and 61 CHINS petitions. They had NO RECORD of the number of five, six, or seven day absences and NO RECORD of prosecutions of parents.
We do have some data from earlier years:
Of course, our State Board of Education Fecklessness did not fire the Superintendent or sue the School Board over those wholesale violations of a law the State Board is required to enforce.
Your tax dollars at “work.”
Looks like I’ll have to ask RPS for those data for 2016.
Categories Lawless School Board, Malfeasance by Board of Education,
State Board of Fecklessness, Truancy Rampant
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