No

If the government shouldn't decriminalize school truancy, what will you do to make school more-engaging and educational? How will you provide better access to school for those who can't get to school easily? Etc.

Basically, how would you make school worth going to? At the moment, school isn't very worth going to, so I feel like it's not fair to punish kids for truancy. But, Idk.

My argument is that some kids can have problems at home, family emergencies, or lack of a way to get to school. They should not be criminalized if they're less than 10 minutes late or don't have transportation.

It should only be towards children who do not attend school on their own accord. If it is for a good reason they should not be marked truant as you never know what they are going through.

I am a teacher, most students that are here don't want to be here, if you take away the possible consequence, you take away any incentive to come and do well.

Every child should be free, school is not a prison and every kid should come to school willingly by their parents or their own interest.

COVID proved that people can get work done and learn from being at home. Some students are struggling with issues and aren't comfortable coming to school, but don't necessarily need to go to the doctor.

I say no because people should have to right to keep their kids home without having to get charged with a crime that is not hurting anyone .

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.

There are a variety of reasons students are truant. There needs to be support services from the local community to promote school attendance and educate the parents to know that there are attendance requirements.

If not everyone graduates with basic knowledge from school, then how are the jobs requiring basic knowledge going to be filled. We can't have a country of only burger flippers.

schools don't know what the kid is going through and someone shouldn't be charged for skipping a class like art

Some students can’t make it to school on time and the school punishes them if they’re late so they would rather skip the day than be punished for just coming in late.

It's stupid. Things happen to where kids can't come to school like getting sick. They shouldn't be punished for getting sick

All children under the age of seventeen should be required to go to school with a students being able to miss school if the school had approved the reason for the absence.

It is stupid to count truancy against kids when most of the time they can’t even get there by themselves.

The school truancy is so unfair for students, it should be decriminalized. Some students have issues with making it on time or with transportation.

i think kids that attend school should have at least a month of school to miss because some kids just do be tired and need a break we all do and nobody can disagree with that but they still will attend most of the school year. it also shouldn't be that big of a consequence.

Some students may not have reliable transportation to get to school. Others may not do well in a school environment and would do better elsewhere, so why should they be legally punished?

Students have different things they have to worry about like church, work, or taking care of family (siblings)