Results: Fined For Tardiness
1.
1.
Do you have children in school? Yes
24%
•
530 votes
No
76%
•
1666 votes
2.
2.
How often are your kids late for school? Never
14%
•
311 votes
Just a few times a year.
9%
•
187 votes
About once a month.
2%
•
46 votes
About once a week.
2%
•
36 votes
Daily.
1%
•
21 votes
I'm not sure.
1%
•
29 votes
n/a
71%
•
1560 votes
Other (please specify)
0%
•
6 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.09% | 2 | |
| They are grown but we're never late for school. | 0.05% | 1 |
| they get the school bus | 0.05% | 1 |
| Never, we homeschool. | 0.05% | 1 |
| When Donald Trump is on the morning news. | 0.05% | 1 |
3.
3.
If your kids are late a moderate to frequent amount, who is most to blame? Myself
8%
•
168 votes
My partner/The other parent
2%
•
52 votes
The child
6%
•
124 votes
no one
3%
•
58 votes
n/a
81%
•
1775 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
•
19 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.23% | 5 | |
| Bus driver | 0.09% | 2 |
| Bus driver is late | 0.05% | 1 |
| The bus driver | 0.05% | 1 |
| both parents/guardians | 0.05% | 1 |
| The parent is always to blame. | 0.05% | 1 |
| The School | 0.05% | 1 |
| All of us. | 0.05% | 1 |
| both | 0.05% | 1 |
| School bus | 0.05% | 1 |
| all the familly | 0.05% | 1 |
| equallly | 0.05% | 1 |
| birth mother (I'm the StepMom!) | 0.05% | 1 |
| Traffic | 0.05% | 1 |
4.
4.
Winter Gardens Academy is a primary school in Essex England which has recently announced that they will be issuing fines to the parents of chronically late children. Parents could be fined sixty pounds for being late. If they not pay within 21 days, the fine will double. After 28 days, they can be prosecuted. Do you think this sounds fair? Yes
36%
•
791 votes
No
64%
•
1405 votes
5.
5.
School officials say that attendance is important to getting funds necessary to run the school. But parents complain that this is going too far. They say a lot of the parents at that school are single, working moms who struggle to get their kids to school daily. Would this policy be a problem for you? Yes
17%
•
378 votes
No
24%
•
535 votes
Undecided
9%
•
200 votes
Not Applicable
49%
•
1083 votes
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