Parents could be prosecuted if students miss too much school 

That is stupid! My nephew was sick so many times from school last year. He's doing better in homeschooling than public school

Time to start homeschooling.....

Compulsory attendance laws became a thing during the days of Rockefeller. His thinking was he needed an "educated" workforce in order to continue his businesses and continue to rake in unimaginable amounts of money. I think we need to revisit these laws. Public schools are not preparing children for the future.

Hopefully they won’t require a doctor’s note every time a kid calls out sick. Not every family can easily access medical care in the middle of the workday

This sounds more like a threat.

This is absolutely ridiculous. They already have enough going on don't add to the list of concerns.

Ridiculous!!! The state needs to wake up. We don't want to sue our state's government and take them to court

that's been true in certain places for a few decades at this point also kids can drop out of school at 16 too work or if they're being bullied and the school is doing nothing about it and its driving them to the point of being suicidal and then go back and get their GED later

That's always been the case. Parents are responsible for parenting.

Sorry Government, it’s my child, not yours!

The fact that parents need to be reminded that school attendance is required for their children just shows how low society has sunk in terms of priorities and intellect. Unless a child is physically sick and/or has a family emergency of some kind, they are required to be present at school! Since parents need to work, they themselves cannot permit any unexcused absences on their and their kids’ ends to begin with! The more school a child misses, the more they fall behind, the harder it is to catch up, the more imminent summer school becomes, and nobody wins in this situation! Not wanting to come to school is no excuse for missing school.

Don't do that. Then these idiot parents are going to homeschool.

Case for homeschooling

They also don't want children showing up sick and send them home for the sniffles.

Honestly i think this is ridiculous. I can see where they want to go with it provided good intentions but like?!!! My school has a policy where you can only miss 4 days per semester, if you miss more you need a doctors note. They clearly haven’t thought about the families that barely have enough money to put their kids in school much less take their child to the doctor to get a note when they’re sick not to the point of medical attention.

This is foolishness.. it's for weak parents that allow anybody to speak in their business. I will NEVER owe any explanation to anyone for my children.

Just homeschool the little boogers

This man must NOT have children or grandchildren to understand the concept of parenting. 😤

Just remember when you're dealing with your children's teachers and administrators that you're talking to someone that has been in a classroom setting their entire life with no real-world experience

I wonder if they’d have to charge Ferris Bueller’s parents!😂🤣

Just say you want to be like North Korea and call it a day!

Considering the first week of school there’s always half a classroom in each grade getting sick with some super flu. 😂😂 there’s babies at home that can’t be put at risk over and over right in the beginning of the flu season !!! They need to focus on the amt of germs 🦠 there..

I do think we need adjustments in the laws to hold parents more accountable for sending their children to school, but I think they should account for different variables. A few years ago, we missed about 20 days due to illness. This year, we've already missed 5 days for this reason. My child catches EVERYTHING, and I don't think it's fair to my family when others are sending their children to school sick (especially under the threat of truancy) because my child WILL catch it and will need to miss school. We should be doing more to ensure that parents can keep sick children home without threat of job loss, financial ruin, or truancy. That being said, I was also a teacher for many years, and there were a staggering number of parents who just wouldn't help their children get to school in the morning. Some of this was because of their job schedule, but often it was because the student was struggling with mental health, being bullied, or some other issue that was making school traumatic for them. Instead of helping their child address the root cause of the issue, they just stopped sending their child to school. As the parent of a child who also struggles, I can empathize, but it is frustrating when teachers are tasked with figuring out how to catch students up after they miss a significant amount of school. Keeping your kid home because it conflicts with your schedule or because school is too much just shouldn't be an option, and schools should do more help parents access carpools, mental health resources, etc. to ensure that parents of these kids CAN reasonably send them to school. If none of that works, then by all means, THEN take them to court to face consequences.

Well back when I was in HS in the late 90s. We were only allowed to miss 8 days a semester, or we had to do that class again. Parents need to start being parents again and stop babying their kids. There are rules so follow them. Only time it allowed more then 8 days was when a kid was in the hospital, or a Dr note.

I feel like this voluntary service we sign up for is overstepping. They should focus more on educating the kids who are there. My kids miss school all the time and they get A's, we travel alot to different states and I teach them at home, if we are there long enough I'll enroll them in school mainly to socialize. They only give these kids 2 months off a year then they are expect to work or keep going to school. When do they experience life?

It depends. If a child has a valid reason then no. You cant expect kids to come to school if they are sick. Or some other valid reasons

That’s ridiculous!!!

I appreciate the attempt here. But I feel like it's addressing more of a symptom than it is of the cause. Notice how the people who claimed to not take their kids to school that often said it was because of COVID concerns. Wouldn't it be better to instead of punish this parent for being concerned about their child, to have procedures in place for excused absences due to COVID? Asking why a parent is not taking their kid to school I think should be the first step before immediately moving to legal threats

Will this law be used against home/unschoolers?

When will u start prosecuting schools for failing to educate children? If they go every day and still come out stupid what good does it do???l

This will not help parents who are already clearly having issues at home then miraculously be able to get their kids to school. You know what *actually* works? Independent transportation for the kid, when/if needed (carpools are awesome for this). Helping their parents get steady, sustainable jobs, and helping people with drug treatment when needed (not to say all kids who have attendance issues have parents who are addicts, but it's more likely).

If the kids don’t go to school, the school doesn’t get paid

What if a child is very very sick and can't go? Do they want illnesses to pass around the naberhood because they are forcing a sick child to go to school? That idiot needs to mind his own business, he's looking for excuses to give innocent people tickets because their children are sick an not wasting all their time on learning useless crap in school. If his child got sick he would have a different opinion.

This is about revenue, no kud in the seat means no money

You know, according to historic records some of the greatest world leaders, musicians, and even scientists never went to school and they turned out fine.

It depends on the reasoning like if a kid is sick. Also maybe teach students math, English science and history instead of critical race theory and gender identity and maybe we will get more kids in school and better grades. Let’s start out with that.

Imagine a child has cancer and misses school because they are in the hospital. Would they allow the student a chance to do online classes, like during the worst of the pandemic? Or would they demand the child be present in class?

But teacher workdays are ok, right😂

Thank the Amish for fighting for homeschooling.