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.
55% Yes |
45% No |
55% Yes |
45% No |
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Unique answers from America users whose views extended beyond the provided choices.
@8JJ29SS3yrs3Y
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.
@8LG9KGY3yrs3Y
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
@8G4T2584yrs4Y
It should depend on the reason for truancy.. Sickness, death, injury, should excuse it but, missing the bus or oversleeping is not an excuse.
@8HW3FSG4yrs4Y
I don’t really know much about this subject.
@9DZQJQM7mos7MO
No and make public schools stricter
@9B55G431yr1Y
Yes, but only up to a point
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