His latest project is tackling truancies, as it seems truant people can become mass murderers. Of course, the fact that guns can be purchased or stolen from almost anywhere does not have anything to do with mass murders done with guns. I am not anti-gun, but guns are a problem in this country,
“We’re going to refile the bill that restarts civil truancy,” said Bettencourt. “We’ve got to get back to where there’s a way to handle truant kids, and part of that is the school districts have to be able to go knock on doors again. They’ve got to be able to ask the parents to attend meetings, and there has to be some dialog again to find out why people are skipping school.”
Bettencourt said the issue of chronic truancy became a priority after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. An investigation by state lawmakers found the Uvalde school shooter missed more than 100 days of school, had been involuntarily withdrawn from the district and there was no clear record of whether anyone ever visited his home to find out why he was missing class.
Death by guns, children ages one to seventeen.
The annual report’s major focus this year is on gun deaths among children ages 1 to 17. In the U.S., gun death rates in this age group have increased by 106 percent since 2013 and have been the leading cause of death among this group since 2020.
I was a teacher for twenty years, and I can tell you that if I had a problem-maker who was often absent, I was not inclined to want him back in class. I don’t believe I was alone in feeling that way.