Comments on: Texas To Track Truant Students By GPS

Kids With History of Skipping School To Wear Ankle Bracelets Equipped With Satellite Technology

[barbaram99]

Iknow some are gonna say no way.
I had 2 outfits for school,,They were a blouse and slacks. On clothes I was told by a foster parent I don''t care what the other girls wear yer wearimg what yer told. She had a dress code and no I did not break it, She knew my every move.She know what was in my book bag. Yes she took my magifier. That I was pissed.They would not face it as a legally blind needed it. So I could do nothing about it. It was hell.
The thing is these kids can see to to do thrir lessons and rather party or what ever. They should be in school. They are throwing away their education, Or their parents don''t care. Time out don''t work than find something that will. I am aware each child learns differently. I could not share my school book with another student. I needed to hold it nearto my face to try to read it.

[erasmus81]

Hey Nancy

Did you see the "Cocoa May Boost Brain''s Blood Flow"?
Maybe you should try some, it may help yours. It''s worth a try.:)

[erasmus81]

Hi Barbara

"Be a parent not a friend to them."

That''s exactly right. That is one of the major problems today. Too many parents are trying to be their kid''s friend. They don''t need another friend they need a parent.

I have watched several programs where they were interviewing teenagers and they all said that they WANTED their parents to give them "rules" and set times for them to be home. It makes them feel like their parents CARE about them.

I noticed a post of yours awhile back. You asked if I was erasmus6. Yes, I am. I was naughty one day and got booted off, so I had to change my name.:)

[barbaram99]

I have a fully sighted friend and we share a place and have have 25 years. He is a dear. So he wanted to show me how poorly they did me and so at 51 he got me this computer. I have been posted here 2 years. I ''member the regs that post. He got my Dell and he wondered when the day would come that they failed me. 6 month laters I told him computer told me in so many words. I grad 74 sp ed. I have older kin that can''t read. My senior parents that I don''t know don''t have computer so will look things up for them they back east.

[barbaram99]

Karen I am glad yer in WA. Me am in Seattle.
First of all every body pays in to the schools. Yep.
So what can be done..
Get them out of them awful clothes and into decent outfits for school.Parents yer in command. Children are not. No means no.
Be a parent not a friend to them.
What works..Karen If only they track by GPS the rapests that put on the afther their prisom time.

[barbaram99]

I was barred as from school and I am legally blind with handicaps. Yes they did. I also have C/P. Any one with that know they look too young. I am Maine born. I was sheltered. Yep. I was 29 and in CO and the cops took me to their grammar school that is how young I looked. I told them I m not a student. So at 33 I was told i could NOT carry a beer out the store, The man thot I was 16. I said I am of age and handed my ID. Now at 53 they think I am 20..The saddest thing is a dar pulled up taking pic of me. We were at a bus stop. I asked my sighted friend what''s with the car. He thinks yer a kid..I am not..
I knew at 10 I did not wants for health reasons, when I was in foster care and school they no idea how to teach a blind child. They did all the wrong things.
I would welcome dress codes for the students. Parents being parents. Kid boss their parents. I have seen it. I do praise them when their childen are good. Brats fot parents and brats for kids. The problem is the home..Children do as their parents. When I was a student I was too scared to talk and when I did. I said what I heard. I type with one finger and use a 4 power hand magifier to read. The hunt and peck.

[erasmus81]

"This affected her school work and also made it so she didn''''t want to go."Posted by erasmus81 at 08:41 PM : Aug 24, 2008

Actually what I meant to say about this is that if I hadn''t been paying attention, this could have gotten out of hand. Just think of all the parents out there that aren''t paying attention to what is going on in their kids lives.

And when VoidMaster was talking about some kids being lazy and you can''t change that, that''s c-r-a-p.
If you are raising your kids right, they won''t be lazy. They learn from their parents.

[erasmus81]

When I said, "And an Idiot", I was talking about NANCY.

[erasmus81]

Another problem was the school and how they did things.

I don''t know what school is like in the U.S., but here they are allowed to talk freely in class. It never used to be this way. My oldest daughter had a hard time concentrating on her work with everyone talking. This affected her school work and also made it so she didn''t want to go. She ended up having a few detentions. And when she was in the "detention" room, she could work fine. That was because there was NO TALKING ALLOWED! My other daughter was a different kind of person and it didn''t seem to bother her.

Parents aren''t discipling their kids and don''t want the teachers doing it either. Teachers have to be very careful now. I think society is in a downward spiral and I don''t know if we are going to be able to fix it.

[karen091866]

To those copying/pasting & responding with hostility to BarbaraM99---For crying out loud,people, she is blind. The ability to use a standard keyboard is seiously hampered if one is vision-impaired.
It''s likely that she uses a voice-recognition device to post messages; therefore, there''s going to be some typo''s.

I can''t help but to shake my head in disbelief @ how people trash each other on these message boards. :(

On another topic, I''m a native Texan...living in WA --and I think that the little Texas truants should be monitored by GPS. Track those little ''inmate-wannabes'' and let them know that their choices are limited: attend school, or sign up for Job Corps.

[erasmus81]

"...any thought on what to do w/ truant kids?"
Posted by sbbm at 05:56 PM : Aug 24, 2008

To tell you the truth, I don''t think there is much that can be done. It''s too late.

I looked after my sister-in-laws kids for awhile when they were teenagers. They were used to going out whenever they wanted and staying out to all hours of the night. I found that once you have lost control of them, it is really hard, if not impossible, to haul them back in.

I didn''t have problems with my kids, because from early on there was consequences for their actions.
People don''t like to hear the word "control", but that is exactly the way it is. If you lose control of your kid, there''s no going back. If my kids were bad, they had their most favorite thing to do or have, taken away from them. My one daughter loved to talk on the phone and that was the first thing that was taken away. And it wasn''t just for an hour!

From what I am seeing with parents today, they do not discipline their kids. They don''t even know where they are, never mind what they are doing. If you don''t start when they are young, there isn''t much hope.

[erasmus81]

"I am not a parent." -- BabsM99

Small blessings...


Posted by Nancy_Naive

h-o-l-y c-o-w - nancy, you are brutal, cruel, cold and condescending

Posted by sbbm at 07:49 PM : Aug 24, 2008

And an IDIOT!

[barbaram99]

There''s a saying ye can lead yer horse to a watering hole and yer horse will or will not drink the water.
Parents they can send their kid to school but with out the tools to aid can''t learn and if abous in the home that child shuts down and is in fear. Some can''t do their numbers,some have a learning handicap.
I wish people would think before they ever have children. I am not a parent. All the safe guards won''t work, Ye can''t cram the mind with things it can''t grash, I wanted to learn the basics were missing, from early on. I would love them to have schooling as we pay for it.

[barbaram99]

I am 53. It may surprise ye I was barred from school from 5 to 10. I was denied that. And when I did attend at 10 I could not read ,write,spell,print my name. I went in to sp ed and was the only legally blind child. No large print or sp needs, so who failed me.. the state..I was money to the homes and that it. Teachers saying Barbara I can''t teach ye. So I sat in class as that was the law. So kids can''t get it mo matter how it taught. I don''t have an answer, the home is the blame, as parents dump the handicapped on the town, They in turn can''t help.

[gramto8]

Your bones are different than mine formrusmcsgt.

So does this mean that you are a **** floresiensis and that I am a **** sapiens sapiens?

lol

Posted by BeBoldin09 at 08:43 AM : Aug 24, 2008

No, you, sir, are **** full-of-*******!

[voidmaster-2009]

It has been fun people, but I have to go. I''ll check back later as I get a chance.

[voidmaster-2009]

Congratulations sbbm, you have some smart kids. And you%u2019re a good parent to see after them, teach them, encourage them. Somehow don%u2019t see them wearing ankle-gear ;-)

[voidmaster-2009]

So you''''re saying it''''s OK that these people learn to become lazy and let society (the likes of you, myself and the rest who oblige) to take care of just because they ''''don''''t want to''''?
(btw, you are awesome to debate with - have to say it''''s refreshing and appreciated)

Posted by sbbm

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Thanks for the compliment.

Is it Ok for these people to chose to be lazy? More appropriately, I would ask, is it Ok to deny them their right to chose? And I say it is not. I don%u2019t much care for lazy people either. But I would not try to force someone else to be otherwise if he chose to be lazy. Nor would I kill him to dodge the bill.

These represent the only three possibilities: force him, kill him, ignore him.

[voidmaster-2009]

Also, society getting %u201Cstuck with the bill%u201D is not sufficient grounds to toss free will out the window. Society chose (again, a choice) to dole out public assistance.

[voidmaster-2009]

I failed high-school algebra. That was actually somewhat unusual for me, as I tended to do well in most classes. But in this case, the teacher was so boring, I doubt Preludes would have kept me awake. In other words, the class could not hold my interest. So I did not learn it.

A couple of years ago, I needed to learn some trigonometry for my work. Thank god for the Internet. Through it, I taught myself what I needed to know (couldn%u2019t afford any kind of continuing education course at the college).

The point is, if someone is going to learn, then he will learn. It%u2019s a choice. If he is not going to learn, then he won%u2019t; also a choice.

Stand back and let evolution do its job. Someone has to wash dishes. And it is *always* a matter of choice, as it should be.