# Wanna get your parents in trouble? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 29, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269 "2002-04-29T12:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/1 "2002-04-29T12:08:44Z")
Apparently, a few cities and states have started to enforce a new enactment stating that if a child gets caught skipping school, the child will be arrested, AS WILL THEIR PARENTS. No, I understand the concept that parents are responsible for making sure their kids get to school, but does anyone else think this is taking it a BIT too far? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/2 "2002-04-29T14:15:48Z")
I do. I mean, aside from gluing your kid to your leg and attending class WITH him/her (which would likely constitute abuse), what else is a parent supposed to do? Granted, some kids have distinct truency _problems_ which could probably be greatly aided by some parental intervention. However, I can tell you that my parents took quite an interest in my day-to-day activities, my classes, my grades, my friends, etc., and would not by any stretch of the imagination qualify as neglectful… yet I occasionally skipped class (needless to say they had no clue). A spring day, a couple of friends, an afternoon spent at Dairy Queen or to the Zoo or maybe washing the car instead of with an embittered, spitting Science teacher who treated us all like morons… It happened. And I will live with that shame for the rest of my life. 😉 However, I’d hardly call my occasional truency grounds to arrest my _parents_. If we’re going to go that far, hell–why not arrest the spitting Science teacher who failed to be interesting enough to win out over the allure of 75 degrees and sunshine? After all, my parents were entrusting me to the care of the _school_ for the majority of the day… ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/3 "2002-04-29T14:36:36Z")
**El Elvis Rojo** : > [@](#): > > Apparently, a few cities and states Cite? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/4 "2002-04-29T14:57:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\ ***El Elvis Rojo** : > Cite? \*\* I don’t have a web site because I got it from the news (I work at a news station), but we mentioned it’s currently going on in Jacksonville, FL. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/5 "2002-04-30T19:39:38Z")
Man, my parents are in their 70s. I wouldn’t want them going to jail. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/6 "2002-04-30T19:49:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\ ***El Elvis Rojo** : > Cite? \*\* I hopr I don’t come off as a jerk, but: Do you think this law is totally implausible? Do you really NEED a cite to buy into the OP? If so, OK. Just wondering. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/7 "2002-04-30T21:33:22Z")
Actually, I’ve heard of this as well. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-get-your-parents-in-trouble/106269/8 "2002-04-30T21:54:15Z")
Cite. [http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/WNTnorris\_truancy020228.html](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/WNTnorris_truancy020228.html)