>>11911551>>11911451>It was a joke, I will go to jail bc I skipped school 2 years agoHaha wtf!?
Make the government regret, to have send you to jail.
Truants disregard the current compulsory school attendance - and that is an administrative offense in Germany. For this reason, parents who tolerate their children's truancy over a period of weeks or months or fail to take action can face a fine or even imprisonment. In Lower Saxony, parents must pay five euros per truant school day. "If this fine is not paid, a juvenile court can impose work hours," juvenile court judge Jens Buck reveals to Vice magazine.
But even though truancy is "only" a misdemeanor and not considered a felony, many teenage truants nevertheless also end up behind bars every year. According to research by Vice, more than 1,000 truants served time in juvenile jail in 2017.
But detention is only threatened if fines and work hours are refused and students are still absent from class, according to Juvenile Court Judge Buck. Incidentally, most truants end up in jail in Lower Saxony (683 in 2016) and Bavaria (336 in 2017). However, drugs often play a decisive role in these cases as well.
