Do children have to go to school after the end of their compulsory education--or can parents only try to make them go to school without the police to back them up?
No, I said that out of sheer practicality. I'm trying to steer the conversation to legal advice and not life advice. I know this is probably too much to ask, but it would be nice if you would just assume that I'm making the right decision. Why judge someone making a decision you can't imagine...
This is something of an emergency (I already told my counselor that I'm dropping out and am having some difficulties) so I'm trying to get an answer that I'm sure of immediately.
In the same sense that they can make you clean your room with penalties and bribes; or can they get legal assistance for doing so?*
This particular school district does not have any rules on the matter so the state's degree of freedom applies.
*Talking about enrollment--NOT truancy
New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 3205. Attendance of minors upon full time day instruction
It says "a minor... shall be required to remain in attendance until the last day of session in the school year in which the minor becomes sixteen years of age" not "parents shall be...