Gradebusters by Stephen Schmitz

Author:Stephen Schmitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bancroft Press

Parental Responsibilities and Education

Legally, parents are responsible for assuring the State that their children attend school until the age when the children can legally drop out. Nowadays, in most states, juveniles must attend school until high school graduation or the age of eighteen. In a smaller number of states, the age of choice is sixteen or seventeen, but children can rarely drop out before age eighteen without parental consent. Attending school is the law.

Children must attend school unless they are sick—parents cannot simply decide to let a child stay home.

Parents are responsible for their child’s behavior while at school, even if the parent is unaware of a child’s misbehavior. Parents can be cited or sued if their children fail to attend school, if they harm someone at school, or if they break the law at school. This includes drug or alcohol use, truancy, theft, or threatening school staff or fellow students. Bullying is now a criminal offense in most states. Parents are expected, under law, to establish clear rules and regulations for their child, to be responsible for their child’s behavior, and to monitor the child’s conduct at school.

Parents are thus responsible for their child’s behavior in the classroom and outside of school. The legal system assumes that children in the community are under the supervision of a legal guardian, usually the parents, and holds the legal guardian responsible for their children’s conduct. Parents cannot legally allow their children to break any law, and that includes curfew laws, truancy statutes, liquor and tobacco laws pertaining to minors, substance abuse laws, and traffic regulations.

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