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Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school by kuzimoto on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:30PM (#21865244)
> Now we are almost at the point of making not going to school illegal.

I'm fairly certain (at least for the US) it has been illegal. "By 1918, every state had a compulsory attendance law on the books." [1]

According to this table, school attendance is compulsory for every state in the US for specific age ranges: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/statereform/tab5_1.asp

[1] https://hslda.org/content/docs/nche/Issues/S/State_Compulsor...

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Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school by coldacid on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:04PM (#21865554)
At least in the USA there are options for alternative schooling and homeschooling, which allow exceptions to compulsory public school attendance. Look to Europe though and you'll find places where it's absolutely illegal to do anything but go through the child brainwashing factories. Germany is a good example of this.
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Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school by scifi6546 on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:29PM (#21865814)
In alaska there is no real punishment for skipping school
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