[cyclotic]

I think Maryland requires school attendance until 18.

A couple of our home schooled kids were essentially done by 16 and doing community college classes. We weren’t too worried about the truancy laws but were familiar with them.

Frankly, having truancy laws up to age 18 is stupid. By 16, the losers who clearly don’t want school already know it and are an impediment to the actual students, thus should be allowed to leave or expelled.

[PLMerite]

“I think Maryland requires school attendance until 18.”

I checked, it’s currently 17. I don’t know if it had ever been less than that, at least not recently.

[IYAS9YAS]

By 16, the losers who clearly don’t want school already know it and are an impediment to the actual students, thus should be allowed to leave or expelled.

In my home state of Idaho, back in the 1980s, you only had to be in school until 16. As a result of this rule, high school was actually less dangerous with respect to violent, unlearning utes than junior high was. And yes, small-town Idaho had its share. Mostly Mexican kids who were the children of migrants, but also white-trash punks.