West Clermont Local Schools

(this post is re: my community, but probably indicative of practices across the country):

An administrator from West Clermont Local schools called me to inform me that my son would be given detention for being late to school 20 times this year (no later than 10 minutes), and I explained to him that this practice is discriminatory against different family types (a stay at home parent who lives a block from the school and has one kid will have a much easier time than a kid with two brothers who each go to different schools and live in different houses different distances from the school twice a week). The administrator seemed to accept this, and my son wasn't given detention, but this baseline is still discriminatory—and West Clermont Local for some reason doesn’t seem to allow public posts—so I’m posting this here on my page for other families who find this unnecessarily punitive practice unacceptable. Hopefully if enough of us speak up, they will stop punishing our children for not living in homes that fit their cookie-cutter expectations!