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<blockquote data-quote="CAmom" data-source="post: 86782" data-attributes="member: 1835"><p>You could have been writing about my son a year-and-a-half ago. He also refused school, missing an average of two days a week through his entire Junior year. </p><p></p><p>We're in CA and ended up in front of the District Attorney's office because of his truancy issues. Later, he had to appear before a judge on two occasions and was fined ($100 the first time and $250 the second).</p><p></p><p>Like your son, nothing seemed to help. He knew very well that he would not be getting his driver's license nor the car we promised him when he graduated if he didn't get with the program.</p><p></p><p>I noticed that your son is a pot smoker...our son was eventually court ordered into a group home for committing a crime (his first and only arrest), and, by the way, his school non-attendance played VERY heavily into the judge's decision to remove him from us into a group home where graduating from high school was mandatory before he could be released. During the ten months he was there with no access to marijuana, he told us that, at the time, NOTHING was more important to him than getting high every day. </p><p></p><p>As for advice, if WE had it to do over, we would have gotten right on the phone to the truancy officer every morning and had him "escorted" to school. At least in CA, the law reads something like, as parents, we are "compelled" to make certain our child attends school. And, as you found, we also got the "helpful" advice, "Just make him go!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CAmom, post: 86782, member: 1835"] You could have been writing about my son a year-and-a-half ago. He also refused school, missing an average of two days a week through his entire Junior year. We're in CA and ended up in front of the District Attorney's office because of his truancy issues. Later, he had to appear before a judge on two occasions and was fined ($100 the first time and $250 the second). Like your son, nothing seemed to help. He knew very well that he would not be getting his driver's license nor the car we promised him when he graduated if he didn't get with the program. I noticed that your son is a pot smoker...our son was eventually court ordered into a group home for committing a crime (his first and only arrest), and, by the way, his school non-attendance played VERY heavily into the judge's decision to remove him from us into a group home where graduating from high school was mandatory before he could be released. During the ten months he was there with no access to marijuana, he told us that, at the time, NOTHING was more important to him than getting high every day. As for advice, if WE had it to do over, we would have gotten right on the phone to the truancy officer every morning and had him "escorted" to school. At least in CA, the law reads something like, as parents, we are "compelled" to make certain our child attends school. And, as you found, we also got the "helpful" advice, "Just make him go!" [/QUOTE]
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