Yes me too! If you drag your kids to school thay often just go out the back way ! It can have consequences that don't bear thinking about to force children into school.
I think it depends. Specifically, on the finer details of the child/parent combo in question.
My younger sister was a school refuser. An Ed.psych would come everyday and there was no dragging involved, just a steely will to get her out of the door, into the unit, and a year later back at school.
She went on to get a degree, a masters and a PHD in a hard science. She is now an extremely resilient and effective top manager in a male dominated field. None of which your average person (including us) would have predicted based on the teenager she was back then.
Left to my mother's devices, she would be lucky if she had ended up with a half arsed, unaccredited qualification in dried flower arranging and a part time "work from my mother's home" job that barely kept her head above water.
I HE. But the thought of my mother having been left to HE my then school refusing teenage sister as an alternative to getting her back into mainstream ed, makes my blood run cold. Not so much at the lost sparkling qualifications and glittering career. There's more than one way to skin the cat called life. But at the limitations that solution would have placed on her emotionally, mentally and opportunity-wise.
If I could track down that ed.psyche (who I thought was so cruel at the time), I'd plant (potentially unappreciated) kisses all over her face.
I don't know what the solution is for Rocco's alleged school refusing, I don't know him, I don't know his parents and even if I did... I still might not know what was best for that specific kid, cos at the time I thought the ed psych was going about everything entirely the wrong way with my littler sister.
But I was wrong.
I think what will work and what will work out best, really will depend on the unique nature of the specific people-equation in hand.