On: How My School and District Failed its Students

[taraharris]

Just what are these supposedly negative consequences of abolishing truancy laws? The disruptive students mentioned in the article didn't learn anything in school.

[bzbarsky → taraharris]

The negative consequence would be to have these teenagers free to go about town during the day raising hell.

Clearly not a problem for the school itself. But it suddenly reminds everyone else that these kids exist, and we can't have that, right?