What is your point? Are you going to subject your parenting to their whims or are you going to be an adult and discipline them into doing what is right for them?

Granted, an 11-year old who doesn't want to go to school is already symptomatic of many years of failure of parenting, but 11 is such a young age and there's certainly plenty of room to stimulate their curiosity. What kind of an adult would deliberately raise their children to know so little of this world?