[godelski]

I don't agree with tracking kids but you're being silly. I ditched in high school and my parents didn't find out. This is true for plenty of people. Sure, it was 20 years ago but we had cellphones too. It's not like we were in the dark ages and schools couldn't call

[eloisant]

Your high school didn't call your parents to tell you you missed a class?

Where I live we get a phone call the same day if our kids miss a class without prior notice.

[godelski]

Usually no. If you missed multiple yeah, but mostly they didn't care.

Though they started to my senior year. You'd get detention or even suspension if you did it too much. It was especially problematic with us in the AP/IB programs. My older sibling's class (AP/IB) ditched so much it was messing with the state attendance records.

But maybe they didn't call because we were in the advanced programs. The people ditching the most were the ones getting good grades. The school still has a pretty good ranking in California (top 20%).

And frankly, if they called... just delete it off the answering machine before your parents got home.

Or the other thing, get your elder sibling to call you out. Or call in pretending to be the parent or elder sibling. People did that all the time. It's not like the school knows your parents' voice. And well, now that's easy to fake, right?

[heavygrit]

guess I'm glad you're not in charge of this shit. I can't even tell what lousy point you're trying to make under all this. Going to school doesn't matter? Skipping is easy, everybody should do it? it's good to pull the wool over your parent's eyes?

> messing with the state attendance records whut?

At a basic level parental controls exist for a reason. I didn't make these products. Using them isn't the same as tracking your kids. Calling attentive parents names on the internet is stupid as is allowing phones in K-12 schools which is the point of the thread. Congrats on successfully skipping high school classes so well, troll

[godelski]

I think you've really misinterpreted my comments. I was more pointing out that the parent's assumptions were not accurate. Something it seems we agree on!

I'm in no way suggesting people ditch school nor that school is useless. This is a gross misinterpretation of my comment.

Since you're new here I want to stress that part of the HN culture is to respond to people in good faith. If you think someone's comment sounds outlandish, there's a good chance you've misinterpreted. Please see the guidelines, several of your comments are out of line with the guidelines here. You don't have to agree, but you do need to treat everyone as acting in good faith and not make assumptions about trolling

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  > Calling attentive parents names on the internet is stupid

You will find that I have done no such thing