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The recent survey also found that 41% of middle and high school students somewhat or strongly feel unsafe on campus or on their way to and from school.
On Piggyback Network, parents can book a ride for their student online with another parent traveling the same direction. Rides cost roughly 80 cents per mile and the drivers are compensated with credits to use for their own kids’ rides. “It’s an opportunity for kids to not be late to school,” 15-year-old Takia Phillips said on a recent ...
This behavior is differentiated from non-child-motivated absences in which parents withdraw children from school or are unable to bring their children to school for circumstances such as homelessness. [2] [3] School refusal is characterized by avoidance and/or emotional distress at the time of attending school. [4]
An Atlanta helicopter mom proved that adage was true on Tuesday as she erupted in expletives at an elementary school awards ceremony after her son was snubbed in spite of his scholastic achievements.
Only 17,000 of the district’s 325,000 students are eligible for school bus rides. Last week, the school system launched a pilot program allowing some students who attend out-of-neighborhood ...
The risk of children being run over near their schools is much higher than in the past [citation needed] due to parents driving their own children to school and parking in unsafe places near the school gates. It is not unusual to see drivers parking their cars in bus stops, on pedestrian crossings or facing the wrong way, with children getting ...
Obama’s former Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a radical idea on Twitter; parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws.
The consequences of dropping out of school can have long-term economic and social repercussions. Students who drop out of school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless, receiving welfare and incarcerated. [5] A four-year study in San Francisco found that 94 percent of young murder victims were high school dropouts. [6]