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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it motivate parents? If it’s a hassle to re-enroll, won’t they just let Junior move on without school

The second goal you mention is just about getting around publishing unpleasant data. That can’t be a stated goal.

I’m still confused. [/quote]

Do you really think a child who is unenrolled from school and not reenrolled elsewhere won’t have consequences?

You’re either too ignorant to engage in the conversation and need to educate yourself before you ask questions so they can be rooted in some foundational level of understanding, or you’re playing dumb to question the policy in a passive way.[/quote]

I am trying to educate myself. I’ve researched the MD state rules on expulsions, the MCPS attendance policy, and asked here. What education would be useful? What consequences does a family or child face from being unenrolled?[/quote]

Several posters in this thread spelled it out for you. Even in numbered bullet form. READ.[/quote]

You should educate yourself. According to Maryland law. Only parents with children aged 15 or younger can be held responsible for not enrolling their children in school. Again, I fail to understand how this policy achieves any goals. Except making data look better, perhaps?

Legal Consequences
Any person with legal custody or care and control of a child who 5 years old or older and under 16, who fails to see that the child attends school or receives instruction as required by Maryland law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

https://www.peoples-law.org/truancy[/quote]

I believe past 16, they will put an ankle monitor on the kid and they’ll be tracked by the truancy officers.

So I think from 16-18, more of the consequences for not going to school starts to fall on the kids themselves and not just the parents, but there are consequences. I know this because there were a few truant kids in my kids’ high school who had the monitors on due to excessive skipping.
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Which school?

And were the kids from affluent families?

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