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New Law: Skip School, No Driver's License
CBS2CHICAGO ^ | 24 JUNE 2006 | CBS2CHICAGO

Posted on 06/24/2006 12:25:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Gov. Blagojevich Signed Law On Saturday

(AP) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois students who want to drive may not skip school.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed a law today that requires minors to maintain school attendance to keep their drivers license or learners permit.

The Secretary of State can refuse to issue or renew a license or learners permit to a minor who has been certified as a chronic truant. A chronic truant is absent without valid cause for ten percent or more of the previous 180 school days.

The law allows exemptions for those whose failure to attend is due to economic reasons, medical necessity or family hardships. Minors who are married, legally emancipated, already graduated, or are working on their GED are also exempt.


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1 posted on 06/24/2006 12:25:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I wonder how this will apply to homeschoolers?


2 posted on 06/24/2006 12:40:04 PM PDT by mountn man (Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.)
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I am sure there is some certification for homeschoolers attending their homeschool. It shouldn't be a problem.


3 posted on 06/24/2006 12:44:21 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

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...


4 posted on 06/24/2006 12:50:16 PM PDT by apillar
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"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...

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Good point. It's like suspending licenses for DUIs. Those folks just keep on driving, but now they don't have insurance, either. Great!


5 posted on 06/24/2006 12:54:31 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: apillar

Precisely. The very people the state should want to help keep legal as a matter of policy (and are most in threat of not becoming so) will now be pounded farther down.


6 posted on 06/24/2006 12:58:04 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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A very good point. Have you ever noticed that most laws actually punish the poor or uneducated more than those with greater resources. It creates a system whereby the offenders are forced into having more and more infractions heaped on them by the state for not being well enough off to address what are initially minor violations. I had a neighbor who did not have enoughto fix her car for emissions testing and when finally able to comply was hit with another $120.00 in fines. If she had been more affluent this would not have happened.
Maybe it's time to scale fines according to ability to pay, as they do in Germany, for violations on the autobahn.


7 posted on 06/24/2006 1:17:51 PM PDT by thile44 (Simplicity is too complex.)
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The field of Law & Economics is one of the most neglected areas of law, period. It should be a mandatory part of a law school curriculum, but isn't because the L & E types tend to be conservative/libertarian.


8 posted on 06/24/2006 1:25:18 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Isn't this the parents' job?


9 posted on 06/24/2006 1:29:38 PM PDT by RedBeaconNY (If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gave it to.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

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.


10 posted on 06/24/2006 1:31:12 PM PDT by GLH3IL (What's good for America is bad for liberals.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Here comes the ACLU!


11 posted on 06/24/2006 1:32:48 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

No thanks. This is poor policy.


12 posted on 06/24/2006 1:33:58 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

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!


13 posted on 06/24/2006 2:00:54 PM PDT by HannagansBride
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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.

14 posted on 06/24/2006 2:10:57 PM PDT by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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It's a bad idea because it only increases Big Brother. Now the school systems need to communicate with the DMV? Bizarre.


15 posted on 06/24/2006 2:40:44 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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.
16 posted on 06/24/2006 2:44:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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To: HannagansBride
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?

We're talking about 16-18 year-olds, not adults. Personally, I'd like as many 16-18 year-olds removed from the roads as possible, they're the worst drivers if you look at the accident records.

17 posted on 06/24/2006 2:47:17 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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By that logic by the age of 65 you should also be removed from the road.


18 posted on 06/24/2006 3:41:53 PM PDT by AntiKev (Keppler makes the world go 'round.)
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Senior citizens are among the safest drivers, ironically.


19 posted on 06/24/2006 4:42:13 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Undocumented FReeper)
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If you could point me to those statistics I would greatly appreciate it. I have had very few good experiences with senior citizen drivers. One of the largest problems being those that rest their foot on the brake pedal while they are driving for "quicker reaction time." What they don't realize is the maintenance headache they are causing for themselves among other things. Also, if you really need the split second that it takes to move your foot from the gas to the brake, you shouldn't be on the road to begin with. Sorry I got off on a rant here, but...


20 posted on 06/24/2006 4:50:06 PM PDT by AntiKev (Keppler makes the world go 'round.)
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