Submitted 5 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils
To give you a little insight, it’s totally normal over here in Germany, since decades: (Allgemeine) Schulpflicht (English: (General) Compulsory Schooling)
The idea is, that every child has a right to education. Forcing their parents to let them attend school.
In rare cases police picks up the pupils or parents go to jail.
Still, it’s subject to ongoing discussion.
It’s also been UK law for a long time.
It’s normal in every developed nation tbh.
Don’t these dipshits have anything better to do?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Some schools in England are sending police to the homes of children who are persistently absent, or warning them their parents may go to prison if their attendance doesn’t improve, the Observer has learned.
Headteachers say they are now under intense pressure from the government to turn around the crisis in attendance, with a record 150,000 children at state schools classed as severely absent in 2022-23.
The group’s membership has more than doubled to 58,000 since the government published strict new guidelines on enforcing attendance for schools, including higher fines and prosecution for parents.
She said: “The children I see tell me that they are so worried about school they aren’t sleeping, or they’ve stopped eating, or they are having nightmares.” She added that if an adult were to report similar feelings about their job, she would advise them to seek support or consider moving rather than insisting they must not miss a single day.
Last week, Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, criticised parents who she claimed were allowing their children to take Friday off school because they were working at home.
“That is why we are taking a support-first approach to tackling absence, setting clear expectations that schools and local authorities work closely with families to identify and address the underlying issues.”
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Well they’ve proved themselves more interested in low hanging fruit, rather than criminality.
Here in Northern Ireland you get education welfare officers instead. No idea what they do. But this is not a police job.
This is dumb unless the kids or being held against thier well. I literally miss half of HS and graduated top 20 of my class of 300. Forcing me to go would have been needless cruelty.
You should really proofread your posts when you’re boasting about not needing education.
Lol bane of my existence. I write stuff down Then move on. I tend to write things like “went to space” instead of “spain”. I will say it was English that sunk my GPA. Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped those classes but would it have significantly improved my life?
If you went to class you could be top 5.
Doubt it. those were the acutal try hards that went to summer school to advance courses. I want to min max life as much as possible. Like what would have top 5 give me? Nothing extra. Better off doing things I wanted.
Great way to make kids even more afraid.
ACAB
This is the UK. Stop projecting your degeneracy on us.
I am also in the UK. The police are a bunch of bullies. The fact they are not routinely armed means they murder less people than in other countries but don't think for a second they are anything other than bastards
Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s another attack on families on the margins of society. I am sure Kier will abstain from doing anything.
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Children have a right to go to school though?
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Yeah because it’s clearly the person who’s not in power who is at fault.
13esq@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I believe the implication is that he soon will be in power but that we might not see as significant changes in policy that we’re hoping for.