As you read this story, just remind yourself, to keep in the back of your mind, that we put our kids, for the most part, in public and private schools, and they spend a majority of their waking hours with these people. These people who cannot rub two brain cells together to conjure up an ounce of compassion for their student’s human suffering. Remember that a majority of the coming generations are under the influence of these numb sculled morons every day.
Maddie Stevens watched her mom die slowly, of breast cancer, for two years. She was an exemplary student, who, through it all, never missed a day of school, until the day of her mom’s funeral. After that, she was back in school. I don’t know many adults who could carry on a normal schedule under such circumstances, but this 11 year old was, like I said, exemplary. How her school reacted to her strong constitution is appalling.
American News reported:An 11-year-old was not allowed to go on an end-of-year restaurant field trip because she did not have 100% attendance.
Maddie Stevens wanted to go with her schoolmates to Frankie & Benny’s for the end-of-year school restaurant trip. However, administrators at St. Giles Junior School in Bedworth refused to let her go because she did not have the required perfect attendance record for the school year.
Maddie had only missed one day of school, and that was to attend her mother’s funeral, reports Coventry Telegraph.
After a two-year battle with breast cancer, Maddie’s mother succumbed to the disease in January.
Maddie’s father views what the school did as insensitive after what she has been through this school year.
“Maddie has been absolutely amazing since her mom died,” said Maddie’s father Andy. “She took only one day off to go the funeral, because we wanted to keep things as normal for her as we could. But even if she’d taken a week off I’d be saying this.”
“And after all that, she gets this kick in the face,” Andy added. “Her school should be celebrating what she’s achieved, not saying, ‘You can’t come on the school outing because your mom died’.”
“It made me feel sad not to go – it would have been a nice treat. Helping my mom for the past two years has been hard,” Maddie said.
Administrators at the school have yet to apologize, even after being told the reason Maddie missed one day of school, reports The Mirror.
“I got more and more angry each time I think about it, and I’m amazed they didn’t apologize to Maddie,” Andy said. “It feels like they’re now punishing us for complaining about it.”
St. Giles released the following statement: “Following concerns raised, the rewarding of pupils for 100% attendance has been withdrawn.”
Seriously, folks! I think the lesson here is that institutional school is not a parental substitute and if you are putting your kid on the big yellow bus, every day, and not closely monitoring and contributing to its administration, EVERYDAY, you’re not doing your job as a parent. This should never take place, anywhere, any time.