ISS & School Funding

[Digging4Truth]

I need help from anyone who may have information in this area.

I need to know if the schools funding increases in relation to the number of kids in ISS (In School Suspension) or other such programs. Schools are geared toward ISS in a major way these days and I am beginning to feel that this is related to funding.

I ran into this with my youngest daughter this year. She has a kind spirit... to a fault sometimes... and this year her locker is on the bottom of a 3 locker stack. She waits for the other kids to get their stuff first before she gets to her locker and this makes her late sometimes.

Here is the school policy.

In the 360 classes that she has in any given semester... if she is late for any 3... She gets detention (which is 25 minutes before school) or... if you are a child whose parents work and cannot get you there early then you get THREE days ISS. Wow... a total of 75 minutes... or... if your parents can't get you there.... 24 hours.

Now this isn't her being late for one class three out of the 45 times she has that class in the semester. This is 3 full school days (nearly 7% of all classes in the semester) for being late for any of her 360 classes a total of three times. (a little over 0.8%)

If a child is tardy ONE MORE TIME... for the rest of the semester then she gets FIVE additional days. Now we are at 8 full school days (almost 18% of the entire semester) for... not missing... but being 20 seconds late to 1.1% of their classes.

If a child is tardy ONE MORE TIME (now a total of 5 times which is 1.5% of their entire semester she gets 10 days ISS for a total of 18 days ISS.

So your child has not missed one class... they were 20 seconds late to a total of five classes which is 1.5% of their entire semester. Their punishment is to completely miss a full 40% of the entirety of every single class (the majority of which you were never late for) of the entire semester sitting in ISS having to work their assignments with no instructional help from actually being in the class.

And... yes... if a child is late again their punishment gets worse.

Friends... this HAS to be tied to funding somewhere and I think it is high time I become the guy that causes their hearts to skip a beat when they see me walk in on a school board meeting.