Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents
https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils
Posted by Codydoc4
Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents
https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils
Posted by Codydoc4
9 Comments
Schools have got too much power and are overreaching into family life.
Well I’m sure that would only be a nurturing and stabilising development for an absentee child…
Seems like a great use of already overstretched police resources.
Police doing what a social care system should be set up to do.
Given that the jails are over flowing already this may not be the deterrent that they hope for.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69014154
Police will go threaten parents yet won’t even turn up when my van gets broken into in the middle of the night, all my tools get stolen and my way of paying my mortgage is gone.
Perhaps I’ll have to keep my son out of school for a few weeks next time I get robbed, the police might actually turn up then.
And what are they going to do with all these kids when their parents are in jail?
And here I am with my kids’ school striking for multiple days a week. Never, ever, ever going to take shit from them about any planned absence my kids might need (usually 99% attendance from us btw).
If the kids won’t go after everything else has been tried this seems a logical step