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If your children aren’t going to class, you could be going straight to jail.

The Shelby County district attorney is cracking down on truancy.

Parents will be the ones to pay the price for their student skipping school.

Just last week, a Memphis mom was arrested for their child’s unexcused absences last school year.

Megan Pietrowski is the program coordinator for the district attorney’s Anti-Truancy Program.