Police can't make us excited to learn

A student shares her opinion in Boyle Heights Beat that criminalizing truancy won't increase school attendance."The financial burden on students and their families is huge, and the time they spend at mandatory court appearances is time lost from school and from parents’ jobs. Worst of all, the daytime curfew has had no measurable impact on improving school attendance and there’s good reason to believe it only discourages students from wanting to be in school." Read the full story.