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November 23, 2004
Screw the separation of church and state. I'll settle for the separation of school and the DMV
(Category: News & Notes )

The Georgia legislature has made the Department of Motor Vehicles subservient to the Georgia public school system. Schools may now tell the DMV to suspend student licenses for up to a year. The idea behind it is to give the schools another stick to threaten truant and disruptive kids with. The reality is quite frightening, especially when you consider how existing school legislation, zero tolerance laws and zero tolerance policies aggravate and interact with each other.

Much more on this at Zero Intelligence.

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Well, since you home school, can you do that? Both for your kids and other kids who piss you off?

Posted by: RP at November 23, 2004 01:56 PM

My kids won't be driving until they can buy their own cars. Incentive to get them out of the house. ;-)

I honestly don't know how this will affect homeschoolers yet. Homeschoolers in Georgia are required to submit attendance forms to the superintendent of their local school system. Depending on how the law is worded it could very well give the school systems the power to take licenses away from homeschooled kids.

Posted by: Jim at November 23, 2004 02:05 PM

The law for homeschooled children beeing able to get even a learners permit has just recently changed.They can't get it unless they show good grades and eventually a highschool diploma or equal.It sux.....you homeschool and still the damn school district tells you what you can or can't do.

Posted by: LW at November 23, 2004 02:42 PM

I ask myself anyways lately since when I carried my kids over to the damn goverment?As parents we have little to say over our kids.
Schools should ultimatly stick their nose into their own fucking business and stay out of peoples private lives.I think it should be up to the parents to decide weather or not a kid should have a driverlicense!Whats next?The kids have bad grades and the kids get grounded and priviliges taken away at home by the school???
I wanne see that happen.....really!They would have a hard nut to crack in me.

Posted by: LW at November 23, 2004 02:47 PM

Well, I wonder what the consequences will be vis a vis insurance. Will those with bad grades suddenly find themselves in a higher risk pool because the state has decided that they cannot be trusted to drive if they get a C in Spanish?

Posted by: RP at November 23, 2004 03:43 PM

I cannot even begin to fathom what driving licences and schools have to do with each other. Why not link paying taxes with giving out passports? It's the same kind of logic.

Posted by: Simon at November 24, 2004 01:25 AM
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