Do Detroit Parents Hate Half Days?
When it comes to school in the winter I’ve got a quick question: do Detroit parents hate half days? This mom (not from Detroit BTW) is NOT a fan of schools having half days…WARNING: There’s plenty of NSFW language in this video:
@jennylottier mom problems 🚕😤 #momproblems #parentsoftiktok #schoolsucks
♬ original sound - Jen Lottier
Is she right about half days?
Oh she’s definitely fired up. But does she have a point? Here’s just a couple of things she says in her TikTok:
“By the time it takes me to drag my kids out of their bed and shove them out the door…” she couldn’t even finish her thought. Then she said her children’s school did this two days in a row. And points out this should be one full day off: “Who’s doing the math? What math are we doing here?….is it the amount of hours in? Or the amount of days I have to drag my kids here? Because we know they’re not doing sh— for these two days, yet it’s causing me angina to get them out of the house…only to have to go pick up these a— within three hour”.
“What sh— can I get done in three hours?” she asked. “I can’t get nothin’ done! I’m circling my tail for at least an hour and a half at home.”
Reaction to her half day video was swift
I was combing through the well over 800 comments on the video…picked out a couple for you to consider:
“Honestly, it’s because kids only have to be at school until 12 to get the school paid. Two days means they don’t have to be made up for funding reasons.”
“The school gets credit if they are there for so many hours a day…So half-day equals the school gets full credit”
“You are so ignorant just to think that teachers are there so you can get ‘s— done.’ Pay for a babysitter or homeschool if you don’t like it,” another viewer commented.
Maybe the kids need to get to school for things like drivers training – remember this story?
