I appreciate his observation that
“If you’re skipping (20 days of) school, you’re probably doing something else illegal,” he said. “But I’ve got kids as young as 8, 9 and 10 that are missing that many days of school. Then we know it’s the parents that are sleeping in or doing drugs and stuff. So we can start to nip that in the bud so that they don’t grow up, 16 or 17, and shoot people.”
That is why it is so important to take early action on truancy.
