Week #5 Article #1
1.
Benjamin Wermund (2013, October 3) Students warned not to ditch school for
ACL festival. Austin American Statesman
2.
Category of problem: ACL festival and high
school kids
3.
Level of problem: Local
4.
This article concerns: A problem that individuals/family
face
5.
Importance/affect of families/individuals: This
affect families/individual because parents are going to have to take off work
to take their kids to the doctor and students are not going to get excused absent
even if they bring a not from home for this day only.
6.
My input: Why is this even a problem? I don’t
understand what high school kids are doing down at ACL in the first place. I
don’t think ACL is any place for kids. There is too much grow up things going
on at ACL for it to be safe for kid to go. I also don’t understand why the
parents of these kids think it would be a good idea for their kids to go to ACL
in the first place. I am sure that their parents know that they are going to
ACL because the tickets to are not cheap, so they have to get the money from
somewhere. However, I don’t think it is the school place to tell the parents
that they have to take their children to the doctor if they are absent on Friday
due to being sick. I don’t think the school should be able to tell the parent
that just for this one day you must have a doctor note. Parents might have a hard
time getting a doctor note especially since at most doctor offices you have to
call and make an appointment which you usually can’t get one on the same day or
sometimes even the next day and some parents have to work and don’t or can’t
take off work just because their kid is sick. As for teachers calling in the
day of ACL, I feel that is up to the teacher and the teacher only.
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