Parents lose driver licenses for children that miss school days

[~~whimsy~~]

Pay increases for educators, adding five or 10 minutes to a school day and a bill that one West Virginia senator thinks would encourage families to understand the importance of education are among the suggestions leaders in their fields believe could lead education reform in the state.

State Sen. Erik Wells, D-7th District, plans to introduce a bill during the upcoming legislative session, which begins Wednesday, that would revoke the driver's licenses of parents whose children miss too many days of school.

Although Wells said he won't bet it will be one of the approximately 200 bills of 2,000 that will become law this session, he does hope it will increase awareness about the importance of education and hold parents accountable for the actions of their children.

On Friday, Wells told West Virginia reporters the bill will call for revoking the driver's licenses of individuals whose children are inexcusably absent for 10 or more days of the school year. Before revoking the license, the bill would stipulate that a parent would receive a warning when the child has been absent five times, he added.

Wells said he doesn't doubt that if the bill is passed, it would be challenged, and that he's not aware of any other states having similar legislation.

"I think responsibility has to start somewhere and it is the parents' responsibility as parents to put the welfare of their child first, and one of those aspects is to get the child to school," Wells said.

He also thinks a student's ability to participate in extracurricular activities, such as playing a sport, should also be taken away.

"There needs to be some consequences," Wells said.

Wells is hopeful the bill will receive some reception and thinks the support of individuals, such as West Virginia Education Association President Dale Lee, who also spoke to the media Friday, will help.

Ultimately, sometimes legislation is introduced to send a message that lawmakers are trying to address problems, Wells explained.

"I think that one of the things a parent owes to a child that they bring into this world is to provide an environment to make sure they're in school," he said. "I just have a hard time as a parent, seeing how a parent would neglect their child, and I do think it's neglect ... you are hampering that child's ability to succeed in life by keeping them out of school and that's a disservice to that child.

"So why should the state of West Virginia and the taxpayers of this state, who are perhaps going to have to end up caring for that child, allow you the privilege of driving?"

Other than holding parents responsible to see that their children attend school, reform to education includes providing teachers with salaries that can compete with other states' wages in order to attract and retain the best, Lee said.

Certified teachers with specializations in core subjects are leaving the state and leaving West Virginia students to learn from individuals who are teaching subjects outside of their field, Lee added.

West Virginia Board of Education President Priscilla Haden said pay increases for teachers shouldn't be out of the question; however, she would like to see the school day extended five to 10 minutes for that additional pay.

http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page...r-s-license-for-school-absences.html?nav=5061

 

[L3ggy]

Really?

 

[Facetious]

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[PirateKing]

That's fucking idiotic. How are the parents supposed to get their kids to school if they don't have their license? Typical West Virginia...

But I suppose they'll learn their lesson when the parent can't get to work, causing them to lose their job and then subsequently lose their home and strave to death on the streets with their child in arms.

Remember kids, tardiness and absence is unacceptable :nono:

...unless it's retardiness and absent mindedness, which we gladly partake in.

 

[mrtrebus]

You need a licence to drive? :dunno:

 

[Facetious]

On Friday, Wells told West Virginia reporters the bill will call for revoking the driver's licenses of individuals whose children are inexcusably absent for 10 or more days of the school year. Before revoking the license, the bill would stipulate that a parent would receive a warning when the child has been absent five times, he added.

I don't think that I had had single unexcused absence during my high school years, my *parents would have been notified on the very afternoon or evening of the day I was absent. Of course that was a long time ago and, well, times have changed.

In reference to this bill, I think that the intentions are good, however I think that truancy should be attended to immediately and not after fives absences . . this is just ridiculous!



*2 parent nuclear family household . . . can you imagine!

 

[meesterperfect]

TOTALLY RIDICULOUS.

the 2 things are unrelated.
suspending peoples drivers licenses to punish them for something unrelated to me is a sick example of GOVERNMENT getting too big.

child support for example:
if you miss a few payments that you are forced to pay through the state and not directly to the spouse , they suspend your license.
well people do get unemployed sometimes, suspending a persons license doesn't help anyone, it only hurts the kid if anything.
and many times the state loses or steals the money, but they still suspend the license, regardless.
cant get to work if you cant drive to it.!
And it also csts a few hundred bucks to get it back.
nice racket.

laws like this are completely unjust.
so a kid misses school for whatever reason.
they suspended the breadwinner of the families license and boom, no more mortage payments, no more food, no more medical insurance, ect........wtf?
that really solves the problem.

how can this law benefit anyone?

If any politician who votes yes for this got a bullet in the head, i'd smile and say good.

another thing i think of is welfare folks.
the reason they get welfare is because they have kids they cant afford.
many dont have cars, how will they punish them?
reduce the welfare benefits?
no they won't touch them, theyre the democratic party base voters.

 

[Member442]

Oh I see this going well. Johnny or Jane gets pissed off at parents and skips school which is fun anyway but has the added bonus of now fucking over mommy and daddy. Great idea.

 

[D-rock]

I have a problem mixing two very indirect or totally unrelated things into a law like would be suggested there.

 

[Ulysses31]

Why not kill their dogs/cats instead?

 

[meesterperfect]

Why not kill their dogs/cats instead?

PETA, that's why.

better to take away their ability to earn money.
that always helps correct the situation.

 

[Ulysses31]

PETA, that's why.

better to take away their ability to earn money.
that always helps correct the situation.

Ban their internet/cable/satellite for a month, they'll be dragging their kids into school by their hair by the end of it
ps that animal killing thing if you didn't know was just a jokey ref to this other thread, i couldn't imagine a world without l3ggs and whims :crying:
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=476747

 

[alexpnz]

Rednecks

 

[kevinsloane81]

how absolutely ridiculous. seriously?

 

[meesterperfect]

Ban their internet/cable/satellite for a month, they'll be dragging their kids into school by their hair by the end of it
ps that animal killing thing if you didn't know was just a jokey ref to this other thread, i couldn't imagine a world without l3ggs and whims :crying:
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=476747

i knew it was a joke.

seriously what can you do to them?
if its a young child and the parents are willfully keeping them from school then there are already laws that deal with that.
but a teenager playing hooky is quite different.

like i said this is just an example of GOV getting to big.
i hope that politician doesn't get re-elected, at least that will send a message to others who want to feed the monster.

 

[Ulysses31]

i knew it was a joke.

seriously what can you do to them?
if its a young child and the parents are willfully keeping them from school then there are already laws that deal with that.
but a teenager playing hooky is quite different.

like i said this is just an example of GOV getting to big.
i hope that politician doesn't get re-elected, at least that will send a message to others who want to feed the monster.

Most teenagers hate their parents anyway lol so wouldn't care if they got punished, they might even be absent more often :1orglaugh

 

[D-rock]

I agree with Alisa. I can see definitely some punk kid using it as leverage against their parents if they don't get what they want. I can almost see it now, "You better give me what I want or I will miss school so you lose your license". They way the laws are now it's even harder for the parents to punish the kids for doing it.

The person coming up with this idea just doesn't seem to have the capability to look more than one step ahead.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

Yeah, this is pretty retarded. They would have much better luck issuing out fines for being overweight.