My oldest daughter was obsessed with getting one of these in a specific color. Apparently they are in short supply. Luckily we know a Trader Joe’s employee who was able to get one for her..made her so happy. Just the latest fad like the Stanley cups I guess 
My mind jumped to the Stanley Cup and was confused for a minute.
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for an absence of a certain length, a health provider’s note may be required. few ever need it bc they aren’t absent 5 (or whatever) days in a row.
reading the article, they are correct that chronic absenteeism is the biggest threat to academic progress/graduation. not excusing any absences ramps up the timeline for CPS to be called I assume
funding. Let’s be real about the motivation.
well, districts get judged on things like graduation rates. and kids who are chronically absent don’t make the progress and check out before being on path for graduating. so that dings a metric.
yes, true, that lower enrollment harms funding. and drop outs eventually lead to less funding.
i think this TN district is acting stupid as hell with the messaging and what they claim to want to accomplish. i say that as someone who has been on a public school district board for 10 years.
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Clever play on words? Or something something dog whistle? Haven’t decided yet if the ad or the negative response to it is the wtf part.
I wouldn’t say “clever.”
Guessing some people are all, “Don’t dress up (or simply be) sexy if you don’t want to be domestically violenced.”
Others seem to be yelling “EUGENICS!!” with the pretty girl telling me how she is so superior to others because of her parents’ genes. (Note: I do not think that.)
Hmm. Well regardless, I don’t see how objectifying women qualifies as “anti-woke” or whatever. 
It is coming from the other side of the spectrum with women advocates saying that ad campaigns like these undo all of the body positive imaging they are trying to accomplish.
So, they body-shame her for using her extremely positive body to make the moolah?
I mean, I think she has choices in what she hawks and why (in this case, for a good cause).
She has choices, however, celebrities should be aware of the impact that their actions have on others. You can disagree with people who think that, but it does not mean that there is no merit to their point.
In the UK, you get fined if you are using state schools and your kids miss school (without that absence being authorised).
That kind of used to work pre-pandemic, but the system just flat out fails now. Covid really messed up school attendance.
Buford has about 18k residents in 5.2k households.
Even university football games in Canada don’t get crowds of 10,000. Different world down south.
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priorities
True. This is basically a football program that just happens to have a lower priority high school attached to it.
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The article doesn’t say…who is funding it?
Guessing the gate revenues and Booster Club are taking care of this.
I’m mean, it’s not as the football team will move to the city down the highway if the school and city don’t pay for a new stadium.
I’m also guessing this is to attract better players than the town can make internally, but I don’t know the Texas School/Football regulations regarding transfers. (I know in SoCal it’s a free-for-all, resulting in football-focused schools going all-out in the transferring department.)
Big hs football programs down here pull >$100K in concessions revenue a game, maybe net 50%. Maybe close to 100K in admission revenue, with higher net. I imagine the ad revenue from the banners of local merchants is big too.
Parents may have to do some explaining.
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