JCCS Academic Language Assessment Week 28 - Truant Students

No, Global Positioning System (GPS) devices should not be required for habitually truant students. This a very important matter and I and other students, parents, and guardians think that consistent truancies should be handled in another appropriate way. Although truancy is a violation of school CONDUCT, ADMINISTERING the use of such devices shifts accountability for that student from their caretakers, to the school. Most students and adults would feel that these devices on students would be taking an extreme and unnecessary step to prevent these truancies. Also, at home the students who are consistent with their truancies may already have a plan set in place with different ELEMENTS to support them in going to their classes and staying there. GPS devices are not the way to handle truancies for they may even cause more problems on school grounds with students not wanting to wear them and parents feeling that it is not the school's job to intervene with things they feel they can handle themselves.