{"id":58,"date":"2009-07-23T17:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T00:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-03-07T15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:58:21","slug":"schools-as-big-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/23\/schools-as-big-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools as big Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Business Protocol<\/span><\/p>\n

a.k.a\u00a0 <\/span>Schools are Big Business<\/span><\/p>\n

“Gosh, I almost forgot to call the school,” a mother recently lamented as she rushed to a phone. “My son won’t be in school today.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Oh,” I said sympathetically when she returned. “he must really be sick.” <\/span><\/p>\n

“no, he went deer hunting with his Dad,”\u00a0 <\/span>she sighed.\u00a0 <\/span>“Actually, he doesn’t really like to hunt, but, he likes to be with his Dad.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not against deer hunting.\u00a0 <\/span>I understand all about culling the herd and male bonding. (What I\u2019m really against is donkey basketball, but that\u2019s another topic for another column.)<\/span><\/p>\n

My gripe is about why this woman, who is a kind lady and a good Mother, just compromised her values and lied to cover up for her son who was doing something he didn’t even really want to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

In another incident, a student had his parent’s permission to go on a long week-end ski trip.\u00a0 <\/span>He missed one day of school.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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When the school found out, they prevented him from going on the Senior Class Trip. His attendance at graduation was put in jeopardy when the parents objected to the consequence\u00a0 <\/span>imposed on their son. <\/span><\/p>\n

School districts are big, multi-million dollar businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve always considered “going to school” a child’s job.\u00a0 <\/span>Learning should be their top priority.\u00a0 <\/span>They work for grades instead of money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps schools should allow each high school student to take three personal days per school year. (I also think school should be year-round, just like other big businesses, but here again, another topic for another column.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a policy would foster personal responsibility and ethical honesty.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be the high school student’s, not the parent’s\u00a0 <\/span>responsibility to notify the school at least one day in advance of taking a personal day.\u00a0 <\/span>Upon returning to school, the student’s written excuse would simply say Personal Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The students should have the freedom to choose which days to use as personal time.\u00a0 <\/span>They should be responsible for catching-up on the class notes and homework, but, may not make-up any missed tests.\u00a0 <\/span>The ethical dilemma about being dishonest would not exist. There would be no need for an attendance cover-up.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>purpose of a student’s going to school is to become able to function well in our community, then, accepting the responsibility of when to take a\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>personal day is more consistent with business protocol.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Kate\u2019s 2-cents: Wayne Central is looking into the feasibility of running a day-care.\u00a0 <\/span>Over thirty years ago, when I was a substitute teacher, I recommended that a day-care be established for teacher\u2019s and substitute teacher\u2019s children.\u00a0 <\/span>And, while I don\u2019t condone free-sex or extra-marital sex, In this day and age, I suspect the day-care should be expanded to include the pre-schoolers of teenage parent\u2019s, while the teen is in school or until his\/her class graduates.\u00a0 <\/span>I would include mandatory rotation of the teens to be an<\/span> <\/span>aid in the nursery to help them learn how to be responsible parents, as well as earn their high school diploma.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>What are your thoughts on this topic?\u00a0 <\/span>Give your friendly school board member a call.\u00a0 <\/span>They\u2019re all listed in the district calendar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright Dec04-06 WCSTAR, Mar08-07 WCMAIL by Kate Chamberlin<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Business Protocol a.k.a\u00a0 Schools are Big Business “Gosh, I almost forgot to call the school,” a mother recently lamented as she rushed to a phone. “My son won’t be in school today.” “Oh,” I said sympathetically when she returned. “he must really be sick.” “no, he went deer hunting with his Dad,”\u00a0 she sighed.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}