Do some schools just not care if a parent loses their job due to the student being suspended or homebound instruction?

I work with families who have students with disabilities. I've had five parents now be at risk for losing their jobs when their student is out "on homebound instruction pending placement" One of them actually did lose their job.

This makes it so the parent needs to stay home and watch their kid complete online tutoring. Many parents I work with don't just have a random family member available for childcare.

I'm also a former teacher so I know school isn't child care. Institutionally and systemically though, what are parents supposed to do? The school seems almost gleeful or untroubled by the fact people are losing their jobs. I couldn't do it. I'd find a way to have in-school suspension. It could never be on my conscience to force someone to have to figure out how to survive. Like... We're basically forcing the parents into that position. And then we make awful comments on people "living off the system" when we put them there with our thoughtless accounting of the domino effect.

I havent found a law yet that keeps kids in school, but the financial burden and loss that parents experience is so high that I'm just shocked that schools don't seem to care.

Submitted February 02, 2026 at 08:52PM by PurplesunsetBluelips https://ift.tt/uLlrYP6