ACE awareness for HS Counselors

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You aren’t kidding about being stuck.  There are many instances where they say.. this is how we’ve always done it.  Or… this is what is in the handbook.  OK, so tell me how it helps to suspend a kid or give saturday school to a kid because they were a minute or two late a few times?  Literally just a minute or two… during bad weather.  Ya know what that inspires?  Absenteeism.  Truly.  One morning was just too hectic.  There was no way we would make it in time for school. We would have been five minutes late.  So I called him in sick and was done with it.  Better than a 3 day suspension.  That is one of the most asinine policies.  Preparing for work life?  Nah.

Suspension for being late? That's ridiculous! I took the school bus to school and was late in the winter quite often because of bus delays. There were times the bus never showed up so I never went to school. Suspending a kid for being late is idiotic. If you're going to suspend them they have no incentive to show up at all. And they wonder why they have the problems they have. I've been late for work for a variety of reasons. Most often due to weather. No one has ever sent me home for a few days for being late. I just wouldn't come back. I'd find a new job.