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.
I wonder how this will apply to homeschoolers?
I am sure there is some certification for homeschoolers attending their homeschool. It shouldn't be a problem.
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...
"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!
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.
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.
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.
Isn't this the parents' job?
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.
Here comes the ACLU!
No thanks. This is poor policy.
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!
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.
It's a bad idea because it only increases Big Brother. Now the school systems need to communicate with the DMV? Bizarre.
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.
By that logic by the age of 65 you should also be removed from the road.
Senior citizens are among the safest drivers, ironically.
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...
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