I caught a student skipping/sluffing my class and other classes. I had asked him why he was arriving to school at 11:30 am every day. He told me he had a hurt foot. Of course, I was concerned and I had our parent liaison call home (I can't speak Spanish.) The mother came in and wanted to talk with me, at first, I was like why, I just wanted to know if your son was ok. I learned that he was skipping class and he told her mother that we had been hiding in the bathroom (for 3 hours). Ok, the parent and I decided that we need to place her son on a tracker, which means her son needs to have a piece of paper signed by his teachers every day and he takes it home to family and then can see what his grades, missing work, and behavior is for the day.
The next day, I signed a tracker. I thought, WOW, something is working with this student, who never stops talking to listen in any class. Well, it was short lived, the following day he was not in my class again and the students noted that he was in earlier classes. I had our parent liaison called home, and the first response from the parent was "What was the teacher doing to cause her son to skip my class?" The parent believed it was my fault that her son doesn't attend his classes.
It gets better, I see the students right after school and ask him why he missed my class. His answer was that he had diarrhea. I questioned, "for 3 hours?" He said yes and he didn't go to the office, counseling center, or call his mother. He hung out in the bathroom for that time frame. I guess, I literally scared the "poop out of the student."
Then, he (the student, not the parent) came to parent teacher conferences to see what his missing work was and then skipped my class the following day. I guess when I meet this parent again, I will ask why she allows her son to skip school with no consequences.
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