How can a 48 year old mother get away with this?

You think a 47 year old mother should be able to?

No. How can a 48 year old mother or any age mother. get away with it?

Maybe she has a fake ID and she’s really 47?

Maybe she is his grandmother?

Do you have a link to this story?

I bet the school is equally relieved she is allowing him to stay home.

Well, I see nobody can figure this out. @Cruiser, the first school was glad to get rid of him but the second school was not since it is a school for troubled teens.
But maybe you’re right. The police don’t care at all and the schools are happy. CPS is not happy but can’t find them. They were coming over almost daily.

Oh, this is someone you know @Aster? I don’t know. It’s illegal.

@aster maybe this kid has a spectrum disorder no one took the time to diagnose. My youngest started to exhibit school refusal issues in the middle of 1st grade. Up to then he was a very smart well adjusted little kid. By 3rd grade he was throwing full on fits, even kicking the principal and knocking over desks and we had no choice but to pull him from school. We finally found a therapist who immediately and correctly diagnosed him with sensory processing disorder where he is essentially hyper sensitive to all form of stimulation. Loud noise, bright lights, crowded class rooms and the biggie was teasing on the play ground. We had no clue he was dealing with this big of a problem inside his head. On the outside of school he was happy, loving and playful and inside he was overwhelmed and frankly terrified of the conditions he faced every day. It was a difficult process and we too had to put him in a “troubled” kids school, but the smaller class sizes with options available to him to go to places to cool down and decompress he began to thrive. Two long trying years later he was able to rejoin mainstream school. Lots of hard work and he was able to develop coping skill he needed and is well behaved and doing very well in high school.

If CPS is looking for them, then it’s not ok. I don’t believe it’s legal to drop out of school before age 16. My first thought was that the child is being home schooled.

My other word of advice is don’t believe everything you hear. Having worked in the CPS field, I can assure you that parents will tell the part that they think makes an exciting story, but the reality may be far different. “He is not going to school and I’m not making him” may be what the mom says, but the reality may be that the child is going to special school with special hours or sites, or being home schooled, or that it’s not acceptable and she’s in trouble with Family Court.