You can drop your kid off to school yourself and if that kid decides to leave, that’s not something a parent should prosecuted for. And yes, this most adversely affects disenfranchised segments of society where truancy is higher and parents don’t have the luxury to be missing for work court dates. Lastly, these truancy laws are about dollars, if kids don’t show up, it affects the dollars received by the district, that’s a shytty way to incentivize and regulate school funding.
I think if you can prove you dropped your child off for school then you cannot be held liable for truancy.
The cases I'm talking about are parents not forcing their child to get on a bus that's a block away from their house. Parents letting children stay home for the week.
Not parents that are making sure their kids are getting to school but the kids are leaving.
I teach at a middle school and the former is the case the majority of the time. Middle school kids don't be skipping school like that.
If we call a parent and they believe the child is in school then the school will not go after the parent.
You're right this does affect the disenfranchised
But I'm telling y'all it's not what you think. NC law is 10 unexcused absences and the school is supposed to start looking at you.
We have 1200 kids here, you know how many have 10 unexcused absences? There are hundreds of kids with 10 unexcused absences here. They don't bother with them, they go after the heavy hitters. Kids missing 4 and 5 days at a time. You know what that does to their development?
My argument has the kid's best interest at heart. I'm not getting into the dollars cause I need my students here to learn, dollars isn't my agenda.