Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents - eviltoast
‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    One “deeply vulnerable” woman came to him in great distress because the local authority was taking her to court for not sending her 14-year-old daughter into school.

    “Her daughter wasn’t going in because she was pregnant. She was involved in county lines [drug trafficking] and she was being sexually abused by a drug dealer,” he said.

    Wtf England? Whoever set up that needs to be fired.