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For parents all across this nation, parents who may work several jobs, the recent 'automation' of school attendance is another hit to the 'security' of their children. Those who ride a bus can breath a little easier, maybe, but for those whose children walk to school maybe even just 'a block', the automation of morning attendance is nerve racking.
A child arrives at elementary school and goes directly to her special reading class. The excuse is that she did not go to her regular class and 'check in'. So this begs the question, why isn't attendance taken in both classes. Still, it does not answer the automation challenge. By the time the child's attendance status reaches the office, hours have passed.
Is this a budget savings? Does the morning attendance activity that is 'entered' I assume into a 'system' get done by 'fewer' staff? Is this about the budget of labor hours? Or is this about utilizing technology? IN either case, our children, at the very least our young children in elementary, attendance NEEDS to be done in a manner commiserate with their value. This activity must return to the most adequate method in assessing their presence. Especially in light of the way in which MOST parents are striving to maintain work, and thus home and hearth for their childen. It even would manage to put those children in less then perfect situations in the 'pocket' of care that schools say they are.
The automation of elementary school attendance needs to stop, and stop all across this nation. I can't count the times that I've heard parents, school boards, local businesses in their little local commercials, politicians, and so many more, say that our children are our most 'precious' gift, that children must be put first, and yet we automate morning attendance at schools far and wide, making them vulnerable.
That's two hours of lead time to monsters who lurk.
