minimum Nevada school attendance requirements. As for students who have already obtained their licenses, absences can cause a suspension of their license.

 

So basically, if you want to get a driver’s license/permit before you’re 18 or avoid any suspensions, you have to attend at least 90% of the semester. This means you can’t miss more than 10 days of school per semester. Missing that many days doesn’t only cost you your driving, it also can cause denial of credit or even getting held back.

 

“It really won’t change anything for me. I’m hardly ever absent and I don’t plan on doing it in the future. I don’t think it’ll make much of a difference, at least for myself and most of my friends,” said junior Leslie Vasquez.

 

Many students seemed to feel this way about the new law; they don’t plan on needing to change their attendance habits just to get their license or permit.

 

But a lot of people seem to wonder if the new law will really make much of a difference in the school or in Las Vegas at all. Some students believe that it will, but many don’t.

 

“I feel like this new law will help fix truancy rates because students that want to drive will make coming to school regularly a priority,” said sophomore Maria Feil.

 

Said sophomore Ayan Abdule, “The new law is great! This will definitely increase the number of students going to school, just because they want to be able to drive.”

 

Then there are others who don’t seem to believe that it’ll make much of a difference.

 

“Driving doesn’t affect whether or not I go to school, so why would I need to drive?,” junior Cynthia Rosa questioned, “If missing school was really that big of a problem for me, why would I want to drive that badly? I just don’t think that this will do much because driving isn’t something that is important to everyone, and it seems like for those of us who it is, we don’t have a problem with attendance.”

 

That seems to be the mindset of many of the students here at Clark—that it doesn’t matter. For most of us, it means that either you don’t care about driving enough to change, or you have good attendance anyway, and this won’t change anything, but a few disagree with the law altogether.

 

“I think the law was a good idea, but a little bit harsh. It might help in some cases of extreme truancy, but overall I don't think it will have as large an impact as people are expecting it to,” said sophomore Francesca Bergeret-Simpson.

 

So if you plan on getting a license or a permit any time soon and you’re underage, you’ll have to make sure you have a good attendance at school.