There are buses provided to students. There’s no excuse other than medical reasons as to why a student would miss enough school to qualify as truant. Even in the situation where the student is unable to go because of a medical condition they shouldn’t get something they didn’t earn.

School truancy is an excuse to participate in these hard things in life such as gangs, drugs, and sexual relations so it should be outlawed.

*Before you read this, sorry for the ramble-y rant.

Agreed, school truancy is kinda dumb. It's like "go to school or your parents go to jail"... :/

I don't think kids should be punished for 'not trying' and being 'naturally bad'. I think school should be more-engaging. Cut out the excess time spent doing nothing! I loved the academic part of school in elementary and middle school, but in high school we learned practically nothing and I dropped out even though I had straight A's because, among other reasons, I doubted that I could even get a GED given…  Read more how little I was learning. (I did, though, got all of the tests the first try! )

Those students may be good kids but no matter what is going on at home there should be a valiant effort in trying to come to school. There should be that conversation had with the family and the student but there needs to be some consequence on not coming to school each day.

If we have more educated, well rounded students and more people are trying to get a good education, this increases the amount of educated and intelligent people around the country, there is nothing wrong with that that i can think of.

If a child is not going to school, it is harming their education. If they are close to falling under that title of truancy, finding a way to continue education is important. Life is hard but a good school system can help a child who is missing too much school to stay on track.