Law Practice,
Criminal
May 3, 2022
School Refusal Is Not Truancy
Although multiple calls were made to the district to ask for help, nothing was done. Days, weeks, and months eventually passed until routine visits by the police became a weekly appointment in the family’s home; a fear tactic implemented by the school rather than addressing the underlying disabilities.
“The police are at my door, my neighbors are staring, I am mortified.” “What exactly do you mean the police are at your door?” We tried to calm our client down on the other end of the line. “They said I need to send her to school. The district knows why she isn’t in class. I tell them every single day, no one is helping.”
In fact, her daughter had undiagnosed social and emotional disabilities presenting in physiological signs of anxiety, ...
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