Tina Kotek Kills School Attendance Laws After 33% Of Oregon Kids No-Show

Oregon is moving to gut its compulsory school attendance laws — and the reason is exactly as infuriating as it sounds. With nearly a third of all students chronically absent, the Oregon Department of Education isn't cracking down. It's proposing to repeal the state's longstanding attendance mandates entirely, replacing enforcement and truancy consequences with a feel-good "performance growth indicator" framework that treats showing up to school as optional feedback data.Senate Bill 315 would eliminate 11 attendance-related statutes, stripping the fines and sanctions that were meant to keep kids in classrooms. The department calls existing law a "compliance" model that creates "tension" with a more supportive approach. Translation: they've given up. Oklahoma is apparently the role model here — a state that already softened its truancy laws — which tells you everything about where Oregon's education establishment thinks the floor is.Governor Tina Kotek has presided over an Oregon school system posting some of the highest chronic absenteeism rates in the country, a collapse that accelerated after 2020 and never recovered. The bureaucratic answer? Reclassify the problem until it disappears on paper. If 33% of kids won't go to school, the progressive solution is apparently to stop caring whether they show up at all.Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily coverage of Pacific Northwest policy disasters, failed governance, and the common-sense takes you won't find anywhere else. Hit the notification bell — we'll see you next episode.#Oregon #Education #PublicSchoolsGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeopleSTAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL