Police are raiding the states streets to catch truanting
children who are resisting attendance. Shop keepers are also making it harder
for kids to be truant by banning students during school hours, while teachers
are providing breakfast in a bit to lure children to classes.

Children who defy the state-wide crackdown will likely be
cause by the police who are conducting operations as regularly as once a week.
Police report the students to their parents and their schools. And parents also
fail prosecution if their children fail to attend school. Keeping children in
school improves their job prospects.


Breakfast sometimes is enough
motivation to get the kids in school. The main reason students fail to attend
school is poor parenting or drug and alcohol addicted parents. Parents, even
addicted ones should be looking out for their children, and their children’s
futures.

parents should really watch out with truancy. Boy did i have this problem with my son. I'd think hes at school adn then I get a call from the school sayin he tried to call his self in sick! That made me so angry I hate thinking about how many times he played hookey and how much his grades dropped because of it.

And you can't let students get into the cycle of skipping school because then if they don't do their homework or just any little excuse, they just don't want to go. It's hard to get someone in the routine of going to all of their classes all day, everyday. It gets exhausting, and especially when they start driving you have to be especially hard on them. You can never trust your kids 100%...

When I was in high school, my friend's mom was a total alcoholic and she would let my friend drink and have boys spend the night but then she would try to make her go to school in the morning. I always thought it was pretty crazy like how can you expect your kid to go to school hung over when you're the one who let them drink???

totallybliss said: When I was in high school, my friend's mom was a total alcoholic and she would let my friend drink and have boys spend the night but then she would try to make her go to school in the morning. I always thought it was pretty crazy like how can you expect your kid to go to school hung over when you're the one who let them drink???

I have a friend whos parents are complete opposite. They're so strict on her. They dont let her go out AT ALL and when she does its only over a friends house and they have to talk to their parents. She is prohibited from talking to boys, and if they ever caught her drinking she'd be disowned. But if she doesn't want to go to school, they're fine with it.

Isn't that a little hypocritical?  Why would they be so strict with everything else in her life except for school?  When she gets older and decides herself whether she wants to go to college, she'll think it's okay to skip school.  And work too probably. 

My cousins parents are really strict. They wont let her date and barely even go out. She doesn't get to hang out with her boyfriend very much so she does so during school. She asked me to call in a few times as her dad and I did it for her, but then it started getting completely out of hand. She would have me call her in a pass for 1030 and then she'd be out all day on a "doctors appointment" and jsut come back when its time for her mom to pick her up. I felt bad for her because thats the only time that she would get to hang out with her boyfriend but now its getting totally out of hand. She'll have me do it twice a week and even the school is starting to pick up on it, they want doctors notes now and they're saying they insist on one. I told her I'm not going to be able to do it for a long time because its obvious the shcool knows shes not going to doctor appointments. She agreed but then asked for me to call in for her the next day because her boyfriend was tripping out over something. I dont answer her calls or texts throughout the day anymore. She's going to ruin her life with this.

That's good that you're taking a stand, and telling her No.  I think a lot of people go through this stage where they make other things more important than school.  Hopefully it's only for a little while though.  And it's wrong that her boyfriend is making her miss school just to deal with him.  I know in high school I was in a similar situation and even though I was getting straight A's, my parents would still get mad about me for ditching. 

I dated an older girl when I was in high school. She already graduated. I would ditch so much just to hang out with her and my grades for that year were so low they brought down my whole GPA. The girl most definitely wasn't worth it though. And I think that her letting me ditch was enough to show me that she wasn't worth it. Your cousin should also see that. She's going to regret it just like I did.