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Should the government decriminalize school truancy?

Truancy is intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. Its absence is caused by students of their own free will and does not apply to excused absences. In the U.S. truancy laws are regulated by local school districts and vary widely across the United States. Penalties include fines or jail time for parents or children. In 2019 Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke introduced plans that would require the government to decriminalize truancy at the federal level.

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 @8JJ29SS from Ohio  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, however, if the absence is clearly a day that was skipped, students should not receive credit for anything due that day or assignments handed out that day. Fall on their own sword.

 @9DZQJQM from Texas  answered…1yr1Y

No and make public schools stricter

 @8G4T258 from Oklahoma  answered…4yrs4Y

It should depend on the reason for truancy.. Sickness, death, injury, should excuse it but, missing the bus or oversleeping is not an excuse.

 @8LG9KGY from North Carolina  answered…4yrs4Y

depends on what the problem is like doing school online ,its really easy to forget to do it because you can get busy with stuff at home

 @8HW3FSG from Colorado  answered…4yrs4Y

I don’t really know much about this subject.

 @9B55G43 from Oregon  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but only up to a point

 @8TP3S49 from Kentucky  answered…4yrs4Y

No, and increase penalties for school truancy.

 @8NPMJB3 from Massachusetts  answered…4yrs4Y

I don't think people should be thrown in jail for missing school.

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