Afterward he never refused any request I made for anything.
The idea that you can do this to students without some biohazard cleanup is absurd. It's also just another way America deals with education issues by dealing with everything but the issue. If the issue is students falling behind, it's not because half of the high school class is going to vape in the bathroom. It's because school starts too damn early, kids don't retain info over the summer, and their home lives don't permit the best possible out-of-class education situation.
We could deal with those things, but that would mean the sports teams have to practice later, get over the idea that kids don't help their families plant in the summer, and deal with socioeconomic factors, respectively.
And that's, like, hard, man.
> If the issue is students falling behind, it's ... because school starts too damn early,
Yes.
> kids don't retain info over the summer,
Yes.
> and their home lives don't permit the best possible out-of-class education situation.
Yes. Fully compounded by the utter lack of access to brain building, adultless, free range time+area.
source: father of five
The entrance exam was populated with HS grads and me. I was from the final generation with constant access to adult-free + free range hours. Everyone else was in the early wave of kids with locked-down, 24/7 adulted childhoods.
Their education was comparable to mine - in quality, behavior etc (my kids attended their schools).
I was one of a handful that didn't have to start off with remedial classes.