Daytime curfew and homeschoolers

[Satori]

It appears a local community is enacting a daytime curfew for students 12-17. They will not be allowed on the street without being going to work, an appt or "other good reason" during school hours. I do not see how this law could possibly work and all the kid has to do is say there going to a Dr appt or what ever. My concern is how will this effect homeschooled teens? Its not like they need a babysitter to walk them to the store or classes or what ever. I can totally see the kids getting harassed by cops for being out. Does anyone else's city have this kinda law?

[SagMom]

Originally Posted by Satori

Does anyone else's city have this kinda law?

Ours does and my teens have been stopped. They explained that they are homeschooled and that I knew that they were out and that was the end of it. When the law first went into effect, we printed out ID cards for the kids saying they were hsed and giving our contact info, but they've never shown them.

The way our law is written is that they cannot be out without parental permission DURING SCHOOL HOURS. Where I live, homeschoolers are not bound by the public school schedule, so I figured we would rely on that reasoning if ever we had a problem, but that hasn't even come up.

Our town is small (10K residents) and the cops pretty much know the kids who are in trouble routinely--they don't seem to be out to harrass kids for no reason. I was expecting a lot of trouble over this, but there hasn't been any.

I have always wondered if the ACLU would help fight something like this, but I have not contacted them. I believe curfew laws to be a violation of civil rights, but the way ours is written makes it a reitteration of the truency laws, so I don't really know what they'd make of it.

[bobandjess99]

In our state, the curfew (daytime or nighttime) was fought and parents rights won, on the gorund that it is up to the PARENT, not the state, to determine when your child can be outside. therefore, all the child needs is a note from their parents stating they have permission to be out, and the parents permission supercedes the legal curfew.