No More Public School
(Page 3 of 7)
July/August 1972
By H. Bennett
TAKING YOUR CHILD OUT OF SCHOOL THE WRONG WAY
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Parents do get into trouble, for taking their children out of school. But I have never heard of a parent getting hassled after giving clear notification to the authorities that they were taking their child out of public school in order to put him in a private school, or because they were moving.
A friend of mine took her child out of the second grade, and did not say anything to the school authorities about why she was doing so. Two or three months later, she got a call from the teacher asking why the child was not in school. The mother answered that she would not send the child to school because the child was too bored by it. The teacher reported what the mother had said to the principal, and the principal called the parent in for a conference. The parent didn't go to the conference, and the juvenile authorities were notified. The juvenile authorities came to my friend's house and told her that what she was doing was illegal.
There were threats of legal actions, but nothing happened for several months. Finally a summons was served to my friend. Two weeks before her court appearance, she enrolled her child in a private school. In court she stated that she had enrolled her child in a private school, and the case was dropped. A month later she took her child out of private school, too, and never heard from the authorities again.
GETTING AWAY
If you have already registered your child with the school people, consider moving to a different school district or a different town. First notify your present school that you are moving. Tell them that you're going to a different state, since they will want to transfer the child's records if your new address is close by. Then after you move don't register with the school in your new neighborhood. This is nearly as good as not registering in the first place.
You can, of course, tell them that you're moving away and then not move, just to get your child's name cleared. But then there's the chance that one of your child's old teachers will bump into you in the supermarket or somewhere and ask embarrassing questions. If you don't plan to move, it's better that you tell them your child is going to a private school. The explanations can come much easier, should you bump into your child's old teacher somewhere.
PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS
If your child is out on the streets during the school hours, he has a chance of being seen and stopped by curious school people: teachers on their way back to work from dental appointments, conscientious cops, social workers, and clergymen.
You should thus keep your child off the streets during school hours, or figure out a plan for dealing with all such eventualities. You can figure out things to tell the authorities when and if they ask you what you're doing. But before getting into all that remember that you will probably have to teach your child to lie and be deceitful. Ask yourself if you want this before you get wholly into it. Developing an elaborate defense will guarantee your own paranoia.
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