[GSLynn]

I wasnt' married till 22 and had my first child at 24. lol But 98% of my graduating class had 3-4 kids by the time *I* was getting married and I was only a year younger than them! lol

[K.A.T]

For us, we had cops driving around in patty wagons or the ones on foot patrol walking the subways. Very annoying.

[Audrey's Aunt Amanda]

While I agree that it will keep kids for skipping school and keeping them out of trouble. What about the kids that are home schooled? Or The teen that got out of school early for a dentist or doctor appointment and then is picking up the kid brother or sister from school?

[Frackel]

This rule was stupid as hell when I was growing up, and it still is today.

I grew up in a teeny tiny town, less than 1500 population, and everyone knew everyone. They had this rule there too. For most of us, it wasn't a problem though, because all the cops knew us and our families. For some, like known troublemakers, it was, lol. But it wasn't my town that was the real issue, it was the rest of the county where they enforced it to the letter.

My senior year I only went to school for three hours, then I'd have til 4-6-ish usually before I had to leave for work. That gave me a good 4+ hours to do whatever I wanted to do. Cops were total tools back then, in some places, I can only imagine how they'd be now. One day a cop stopped me while I was on the way back from an OB appointment. He wanted "proof" not only of me being allowed "out at this hour"(as if I should have been caged), but also that I went to the dr. Freakin idiot. I didn't know what to tell him so he put a call in to have my mom called while I waited there with him. I was pissed, my mom was pissed(and in bed barely able to move after just having surgery at that time, which is why I took a bus to the dr to begin with).
They made him drive me home after harassing us, and my mom put in a complaint to the county sheriff's office about it too.
I had a few issues even after graduating that year, once the school year started again. I was hugely pregnant, and married, and still getting "asked" what I was doing out during school hours.

Yeah truancy is an issue and could be an even bigger one, but come on. Police departments don't have the resources to cover the more important things. They sure as heck don't have enough for this sort of thing.