[mountn man]

I wonder how this will apply to homeschoolers?

[apillar]

I good idea I guess, but somehow I doubt a kid that often skips school will worry very much about driving on a suspended license...

[RedBeaconNY]

Isn't this the parents' job?

[GLH3IL]

Well the idiot Blagomoronovich is actually supporting a common sense idea for once. Must have been a moderate or conservative member of his re-election team to have him give this a go...cause he damned well didn't think of this himself.

[fish hawk]

Here comes the ACLU!

[mysterio]

No thanks. This is poor policy.

[HannagansBride]

This is a terrible law! It's an absolute perversion.

It just goes to show how the politians convince you that you need a law for a specific purpose and once it's in place, they use it for another.

Licensing drivers was justified by reasoning that since drivers had to share a common property on the road, that they had to have a basic set of skill requirement. Hench they had to be "licensed" in order to make sure they were competent to share the road with others (public safety, you know.)

Well, who can argue with that?

How, in a "free" country can a driver's license (alleging a skill set) be used as a lever to force others to behave as you like? Where does it end?

This is bad lawmaking and frankly disgusting!

[Mark was here]

Mandatory attendance laws were passed during the great depression as a way to keep the kids out of the labor market. Now they are used to provide union teachers with a cover for their paycheck.

Schooling should not be mandatory, those who want to be there should be welcomed, those who don't want to be there, should not be there disrupting things.

Ones drivers license should not be held hostage by antiquated labor union laws.

[monkeyshine]

It's a bad idea because it only increases Big Brother. Now the school systems need to communicate with the DMV? Bizarre.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Been doing it in Florida for years. Accomplishes less than nothing. Perfect example of the "Law of Unintended Consequences".

Among other things, it forces the disruptive bums to stay in school and ruin it for the others; when they could be down at Mickey D's flipping burgers.