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Truancy program holding students and their parents accountable
By Christopher Burbach
World-Herald News Service
Published: Sunday, March 28, 2010 7:22 PM CDT
Alex Schneberger, a sixth-grader with short brown hair and a strong throwing arm, walked into the Grand Island school board meeting room one recent morning.
He was flanked by his parents, Mark and Ronda Schneberger. The three took seats at a table beside Alex's middle school principal and a school social worker, who sat with their laptop computers open. They all looked up at a man in a crewcut and dark business suit. He was perched in the school board president's usual seat, behind an imposing wooden desk on a raised platform. A nameplate on the desk read, "Martin Klein, Deputy County Attorney."
The people were all there to talk about Alex and his parents.
What could an 11-year-old have done to land in such a situation? He had missed 15 days of school.
That's fewer by five absences than Nebraska truancy law allows, and his parents said Alex had been sick. But in Grand Island, grade-school kids and families who appear to be entering patterns of chronic absenteeism or tardiness are called in to see a county attorney well before they hit the legal limit.
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