Truancy? It's not a serious crime in its own right but skipping school will create opportunities for mischief and, unless they just stay at home all day, mixing up with other bad apples. Then once they are no longer of school age and have no proper skills or qualifications they are a big crime risk. So I see this more as a form of necessary early intervention than anything else.
Truancy? It's not a serious crime in its own right but skipping school will create opportunities for mischief and, unless they just stay at home all day, mixing up with other bad apples. Then once they are no longer of school age and have no proper skills or qualifications they are a big crime risk. So I see this more as a form of necessary early intervention than anything else.
Glad you think this! I thought I was the only one who saw it that way.
However it is possible that by doing this kids will start showing off about the police themselves having to deal with them... it'll be interesting to see how/if it works in the long term
Tbh it should be their parents who should be facing the legal action for allowing them to truant. I mean there's wandering around town at lunchtime until the end of the day and then there's complete ignorance. Oh, did you give them keys so that while you're at work they can sneak back in? Don't give them keys then.
Tbh it should be their parents who should be facing the legal action for allowing them to truant. I mean there's wandering around town at lunchtime until the end of the day and then there's complete ignorance. Oh, did you give them keys so that while you're at work they can sneak back in? Don't give them keys then.
That will only cause them to wander around more, become increasingly bored, and do more undesirable things to pass their time.
Isn't this because they're cutting Education Welfare Officers? Meaning police have to be hauled in from more useful tasks to fulfil this function instead.
What a pity, laws already existed for parents to be jailed if their brats were playing truant or being consistently late, except the courts stood in the way as usual.