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Truant teens could lose license
Filed under: Teens, Development/Milestones: Babies, Day Care & Education
If you live in Illinois and your kids plan on skipping school, they may want to think again. Illinois Governor Blagojevich signed a law on Saturday linking the right to drive with school attendance.Under the new law, the secretary of state can refuse to issue or renew a license to a teen that is considered chronically truant. For those of you playing along at home, a student is considered chronically truant due to being absent without good reason for ten percent of the previous 180 days.
What do you think? Is this a good idea?
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6-25-2006 @ 5:45PM
Mamacita said...Yes. Truant teens are usually out in those cars. Let's give them more incentive to be in school so they'll be able to continue going out in those cars. And don't even think of playing the "how will they get to work" card. If they lost that car because of their own stupidity, let them walk to work or take the bus or take the consequences from their employer, also. There are not enough consequences these days; too many kids and parents have such a sense of entitlement, they think they can do anything they want and still get the privileges of those who do it RIGHT.
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6-26-2006 @ 9:12AM
Brenda said...Ok let's not fix highschool, lets just punish kids. Greaaaaaaaaaaaaat plan. Because clearly kids skip class for NO REASON AT ALL.
Uh huh, sure.
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6-27-2006 @ 5:37PM
Larry Kluskens said...While I am all in favor of tenns attending school, I do not think the driver's license should be held hostage to enforce all kinds of social behavior. The State of Ilinois has a litany of things for which to suspend driving privilages. They should all be directly related to driving.
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