School Admin hopes to cut into truancy, but hasn't figured out that kids have video games at home...plus food, a bed, T.V., etc.The Intelligencer -- June 12, 2009
Two area schools are using video games to entice their junior high students to come to school, and at least one of them hopes to see fourth and fifth graders playing soon as well.
“We’d like to expand so we can really connect with those kids and create that bond,” said Patrick Keeney, the assistant principal at Roxana Junior High School. “It’s going to create less truancy and more academic benefits. In the long run it’s going to help us out because instead of having dropouts we’re going to have productive citizens.”
The school – which has students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades – started the program earlier this year as a way to lure at-risk students into after-school tutoring sessions and, ultimately, keep them in school.
“We’d like to expand so we can really connect with those kids and create that bond,” said Patrick Keeney, the assistant principal at Roxana Junior High School. “It’s going to create less truancy and more academic benefits. In the long run it’s going to help us out because instead of having dropouts we’re going to have productive citizens.”
The school – which has students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades – started the program earlier this year as a way to lure at-risk students into after-school tutoring sessions and, ultimately, keep them in school.
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