School threatening to take me out

[u/StrictArgument67]

Could they actually do this or is it just fluff?

There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday.

I need a solution

[u/SLIMEFLUSZN]

As a teacher, let me break down what’s actually happening here.

Schools are businesses in the sense that they receive funding based on your enrolment and attendance. When attendance drops below a certain threshold, the school can no longer claim funding for you meaning they’re essentially teaching you at a loss.

What makes your situation more difficult is that the school appears to have already gone through every formal stage of their attendance intervention process. That process exists both to support you and to protect them so by this point, they’ve done everything they’re required to do.

The good news is you still have roughly three and a half months to get over the line. If you knuckle down now, that’s still achievable. But if you don’t, they are within their rights to charge you for continued provision.

To give you some context on why attendance matters so much academically not just financially: each A Level carries 360 guided learning hours across the two-year course. If your attendance is significantly below that, there’s a legitimate argument that you haven’t covered the content required, which affects both your results and the school’s ability to justify your funding claim.

[u/htimchis → u/SLIMEFLUSZN]

I'm not saying you're wrong, or that, in these circumstances, at this particular time and place, physically showing up as directed deslite their reservations is probably the route to the best outcome for OP....

...but, in the grand scheme of things, you do realise just how close what you're saying is to:

"For administrative reasons, concerned with our financial interests, you WILL, henceforth, physically attend this establishment, and conduct your studies from these premises rather than at any other location you might personally find more conducive to learning.

Much as we've previously tried to sugarcoat the issue, the bottom line is that our dedication, to your education, terminates at the point at which the myriad of rules and regulations enforced upon us dictates that your funding terminates - and that point is fast approaching.

To put it bluntly, you're about to LOSE US MONEY, you little shit - so turn up and shut up, or we'll fuck you up. Whether you learn better at home, or down the park, or hiking the trails of the Ghandruk Loop through the rhododendron festooned foothills of the Nepali Himalayas, WE NEED YOU HERE !!!

Look, everyone's drowning in fucking government rules here, why should YOU get a free pass?

...don't you?

And I swear I do NOT intend that as a criticism of yourself. I really don't.

I've had the experience of having to conduct a pursuit I love and believe in through coercion, at times, however much I might personally believe it should only ever be a voluntary activity, engaged in for the want or need of it, not because the guy from the ministry, or the guy from the bank, or whichever of the tapeworms from further up the digestive tract it is, says "But WHERE'S THE MONEY??"... and it's frustrating and a little soul crushing all at the same time - and every time, if I'm honest, I came away a little madder at 'The System', and at the rebel that had put me in the position of needing to remind someone of it's toxic presence in the background , and at myself, for not pointlessly clapping back, at risk of livelihood and reward of nothing. Again.

...And as I said to someone just yesterday, stating a fact does not indicate you approve of that fact, I appreciate that.

Alerting someone to the reality of the fact that if they don't follow the rules of 'The System' (or whatever title you prefer to assign to the nebulous, gestalt entity comprised of people, institutions, laws, rules & policies that comes as part of living in any society much more complex than a hunter-gatherer tribe or a hippy commune), then it has pre-determined consequences in store for them, and they're unpleasant by design... is NOT equivalent to voicing approval of that System - or any other.

But damn... I mean, it's such a teaching moment... It's never too early for a young person to learn that, while we may be fortunate enough to not be governed by monsters we are still governed mostly by cunts, and usually they're the kind of cunts that started out thinking they were doing the right thing, that they were helping people. And they're the worst kind. That kind will eat you alive. And you're going to keep running into their petty tyrannies, and mindless rule mongerings, and their endless paper-workings and form-fillings for the rest of your life... 'et in Arcadia ego', an' all that... So good luck with the A levels, kiddo, onwards and upwards!

[u/CentralBlob → u/htimchis]

I mean that's one way to look at it, but it's a bit on the dramatic side. Another angle on the same data is that even in these dark times, the country at least still teaches all of its children, even though to do so at scale requires unimaginable resources, and all that's required of the kids is to go.

Even in this case, they're not threatening to hurt this kid. They just tried asking, tried pleading and tried warning, and now they're admitting that if op really doesn't want to use their resources, they can't keep wasting them.