Why do parents in the United States have to send children with flu to school

Parents in New York so desperately want their children to go to prestigious middle and high schools that they are ready to send them to the sick, even with dangerous flu symptoms. After all, the number of passes in elementary school is taken into account by representatives of middle and high schools when deciding on the admission of a child to study.

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City Department of Education officials publicly urge parents to leave sick children at home, but they also allow many schools to set their own admission policy, and many institutions put attendance at almost the same level as academic achievement., пишет The New York Post.

For example, in a popular high school Wagner In the Upper East Side, high attendance rates of potential students are more powerful than their social science grades in the process of accepting new students.

High attendance gives 10 times more points than excellent performance in these subjects.

The mother of one of the students of this school, Asia Romero, admitted that she liked the level of education and other programs in this institution, but the school should be a bit more flexible in terms of attendance, especially during such an aggressive flu season as this year.

The same situation in most schools in New York: the more you miss or the more often you are late, the less chances you have to go to a prestigious school. For example, in the Manhattan Academy of Technology, even one pass lowers the total score of the applicant for training in this institution!

However, many parents, and even lawyers who have joined them, believe that a child of 9 or 10 years cannot be held responsible for their absenteeism or being late for school, since in most cases it depends on the decision of the parents and on the situation in the family.

In addition, the public transportation system in New York sometimes works with delays due to traffic jams or other situations, which can also lead to a child being late for school through no fault of his own.

Another problem is that at the domestic level, junior schools record different types of passes: for medical reasons, emergency situations and others, but when submitting documents to high school and high school, the admission commissions see only general numbers of passes without indicating the reasons, which deprive the potential student opportunities to prove the need and validity of a number of passes.

The city has already tried to enact legislation prohibiting the inclusion of attendance in the overall assessment of student performance, since children from poor families often miss school for family reasons, but the document has not been approved.

Recall due to flu epidemic in New York in 2018, the child 4 died already. And two immigrant mothers in our women’s project Woman ForumDaily talk about how New York parents storm prestigious schools and what crimes they are willing to commit for the sake of their children’s education. Read more: "The battle for the prestigious school: parents in New York are ready for anything«

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