School days: School boards across KY are in the process of adopting and implementing the recent act by the state legislature raising the high school dropout age to 18. According to CJ (7/10/13), "The JCPS [Jefferson County Public Schools] board approved the increase in age for COMPULSORY school attendance at its meeting Monday. The changes will be enacted for the 2015-2016 school year" (A8). Ninety of the 174 KY school districts have adopted the new regulation. After 55% adopt it--96 of 174--the remaining districts have four years to do so. That gets us to about 2019-2020. There is a $10,000 grant to the first 96 boards to "come on board," so to speak. Questions: How many alternate learning facilities--those for undisciplined, persistent, often aggressive troublemakers who have to be housed and "educated" away from other students, those who hate school and teachers and learning and are often threats to classmates and school personnel? How many alternate learning centers for them? And where will school boards find teachers who can withstand the teaching situations that will exist in these places? And who are we kidding? Keeping these "students" in school is more about dollars than about sense and altruism (in this case, the values of educating the uneducable). There are other implications of this new regulation, no room to discuss here and probably best left unsaid.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:48:02 +0000
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