in the united states all children must go to school until the age of sixteen However,in some states, like hawaii utah and washington children must attend school until the age of eighteen a child cannot miss school without an acceptable excuse.there are lawsabout this illness a death in the family or an bemergency is an acceptable excuse for missing a class or a whole day schools are very serious about school attendence there laws that make the parents accountable if their children miss school parents can go to jail or pay a fine in colorado a fifteen-year-old girl went to jailfor a month because she missed forty-three days of school and was late nineteen times her paRENTS also went to jail for ten days and paid a fine of $300