Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents
‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics
www.theguardian.com
This is the right wing approch to kids from generations past. Where all their dumb ideas come from.
Years ago when local authorities ran schools they employed truancy officers who we called wag men.. Their was truancy but not on a large scale,
Now our schools are run by whizzy private aademies and the wag man is no more. Truancy is a result of a conservative country that has fallen apart, But its cheaper to deal with it like this boneheaded way than tackle the underlying causes.
Just a simple example. Some girls wag school because they cant afford sanitary products. Rather than make them available they prefer to prosecute the parent. Bonehead conservatism in action.