> but many parents don't trust their children with that degree of autonomy But I guess it would appear in the school records if they didn't go to school. At le

> but many parents don't trust their children with that degree of autonomy But I guess it would appear in the school records if they didn't go to school. At least in Hungary the state takes away certain benefits if the kid regularly doesn't go to school and it can also have other consequences as well, like having to repeat the year. But to some degree it should also be part of growing up. When we were 15-16 and all of us commuted by public transportation, a few times we skipped the first class and went to a pub instead. And I didn't become some lowlife gangster, I completed a CS degree with good results.