JCCS Academic Language Assessment Week 28 - Truant Students

Global Positioning System (GPS) devices should be placed on students person. According to The Washington Post, " Seventh- and eighth-grade students with four or more unexcused absences are being asked to carry GPS devices instead of wearing them, to keep the students from feeling like criminals."(SOURCE). This shows that the schools  ADMINISTRATION will be able to keep kids safer by not allowing the students to ditch as easy. Many things can happen on the streets during school.  This also shows that the CONDUCT of these actions will increase grades because they will be in school. According to The Washington Post, "Students in the program get automated phone calls in the mornings reminding them to go to school, and then must enter a tracking code five times a day: when they leave for school, when they arrive, at lunch, when they leave school and at 8 p.m." (SOURCE). This shows that the students will be out of their ELEMENT which should push them to do good. This also shows that the effectiveness of these actions should be a healthy strategy to keep students in school.  In conclusion, truant students should wear a (GPS) system to keep their education.