rick81721
Lothar
Parent of 2 16-year-olds here. I'll just say that these days, shit is different. There's no way they can get away with the same stuff we did as kids. You literally cannot skip school anymore - the school calls you. Every parent knows where every kid is, pretty much every day all day. While shit still slips through the cracks, it's just nnot like it was when I was in HS. I mean, not even close.
Also, after you have spent a considerable portion of your life driving them around like a taxi, you will longingly await the day when they can drive themselves to practice/school/anywhere else.
It doesn't sound like he's worried about skipping school - more what goes on after school and on weekends. Unless you have a GPS tracker on your kid's car, you won't know where they are - or in the described scenarios - in someone else's car. That hasn't changed that much since we were in HS.