Teens Face Daytime Curfew In Dallas
Arezow Doost
CBS 11 TV
February 4, 2009
During the school year, young people should be in class. But truancy has become such a problem, the Dallas City Council is considering expanding its current child and teen curfew to include the daytime.
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Currently, teens under 17 years old can’t be out past 11 p.m. during the week and midnight on weekends.
“For me, it’s like the night time curfew is enough for me,” Kristle Castaneda agrues. “It (a change) wouldn’t be reasonable at all.”
Annette Offord, a 10th grader who was not in class during the day Tuesday, doesn’t like it, either.
She says she’s not in because she was trying to get enrolled at another school.
City officials hope the tighter policy will curb truancy, which Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Elba Garcia says has been linked to residential burglaries.
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