(May 21, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I am a little puzzled here, and perhaps you can help me to understand this. Isn't truancy something that only a minor is capable of committing? If one is an adult, doesn't that mean that one is free to not attend school? So how can one be tried for truancy as an adult? Wouldn't that mean that one would simply dismiss the case as something irrelevant and impossible, like accusing a man of having illegally aborted a fetus in his own body?
You need to remember that a disturbing percentage of Texans -- judging by the idiocy that comes out of that state -- seem not to have advanced beyond grade school, so the confusion between minors and adults with regard to truancy is somewhat understandable.
Besides, if they prosecute the truants as adults, it makes it easier for Texas to indulge in one of their favorite pursuits: executing the little fuckers. It's only a matter of time . . .
