Second Hour first day back after break - My first senior credit factory class of the day. Only about 2/3 of this sorry bunch ever picked up a textbook because our library will not issue them to the kids if they still have last year's textbooks still out on loan. Despite my pleading, phone calls home, failing grades, they still haven't gotten them. All they need to do is pay for the missing books or find them and bring them in. Until they do, they will not be able to get any textbooks out of the library.
Luckily for them, we have to begin a "voting" unit. (Don't ask me why the state has decided to add voting standards to our high school curriculum here in the state of 10,000 lakes, but it is there.) So today we returned our stats books to the library - we'll do some worksheets on voting methods.
When we get into the library, my class is lined up at the desk, and I'm at the end, just at the library door. Two kids are talking about break. One kid who never got a textbook got a video i-pod for Christmas (how much are they?) and another went to New Zealand for two weeks (that's a bunch of ipods!).
Parents, when teachers say we would like parental support, we don't mean that you have to come to all the PTA meetings...we know that you are busy. We need you to support your kid's education, and that includes not giving kids expensive toys and vacations if the kid hasn't even found a way to return or pay for books he's lost that belong to the school.
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I feel your pain. At my middle school, we can't issue books to kids if they owe money. I have one kid who hasn't had a science book all year because Mom hasn't paid the $33 bill for the lost social studies book. In the meantime he's received ipods, new shoes, new clothes, etc. We've had her in for meetings, phone calls, etc. Amazing.
Thought you might want to consider the possibility that the parents have no idea their kids haven't returned library books or can't get their math book--chances are pretty good that even the most uninvolved parent would do something if s/he knew. Problem is, lots of kids just don't tell their parents these things. For example, my son got a library fine when he was a freshman and the only way I found out was that they wouldn't issue a report card--his senior year! By the way, I'm a teacher myself, so I definitely would have done something had I known.
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