Recent content by canterbury

Stay at home? I mean, I'll get a job eventually... when I'm 18 or so

No--Do I need a job to drop out? The law (linked in the original post) does not require it, unless you're in a certain city or district which i'm not.

Can't say for reasons of anonymity. They don't have any rules on the subject is what I mean.

The school district allows it and I don't have a job, currently, though I do have a work permit.

I think you’re referring to the right of parents have over minors to do pretty much anything to them to do pretty much anything that they want. However, parents cannot get legal assistance to keep their child in school any more than they can get legal assistance to force their child to clean...

I am not asking if the parents can force their child to go to school by any means they can without the law acting against them: that they can is obvious. I'm asking if the school can force them to attend.

I posted the replies before yours had loaded

I believe that means if they are enrolled and are thus practicing truancy. I'm asking if they can de-enroll.

State Laws on Dropping Out of School | Lawyers.com on Page 1 Notice that when you need parental consent at 16, it says so explicitly.

Parental consent isn't necessary if the former conditions aren't true, or unless the former conditions are true?

Lawyers.com says that "Generally, students in New York can legally leave school after the last day of the academic year when they had their 16th birthday." not that "Generally, parents in New York can take their children out of school after the last day of the academic year when they had their...

New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 3205 | FindLaw It says "a minor... shall be required to remain in attendance until the last day of session in the school year in which the minor becomes sixteen years of age" not "parents shall be required to make their children attend school...