INDIANAPOLIS — For the past several weeks, misinformation surrounding a new absenteeism law in Indiana has made its way across multiple social media platforms. The law in question attempts to address chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy among K-12 students.
Unlike the misleading social media posts have claimed, the law does not make schools or prosecutors step in when kids have excused absences.
”We’re not dragging parents into schools,” State Sen. Andy Zay (R-Huntington) said. “We’re not dragging them in front of prosecutors.”…