Should parents be jailed for their kids truancy?

[Lamp]

BBC NEWS | Education | Truancy jailing every two weeks

 

[Laddey]

and they moan about prisons been full, scum walking off with a suspended sentance and all that shit.

this countries a fucking hell hole if i had the money id fuck right off

 

[Raven]

Yes, it should teach them to take responsibility for there horrible little spawn. Though I doubt it does tbh, more like a badge of honour for your average scummer of today.

 

[Laddey]

Yes, it should teach them to take responsibility for there horrible little spawn. Though I doubt it does tbh, more like a badge of honour for your average scummer of today.

two different views but i agree with what you're sayin like

 

[megadave]

don't really see how it will help

 

[Laddey]

don't really see how it will help

come on msn cha i want your advice on somethin

 

[megadave]

i blocked you because you're annoying

 

[Laddey]

i blocked you because you're annoying

unblock me then

 

[Billargh]

Stupid idea. Do they still expect parents to walk their kids up to the school gates at say 16 just to make sure they go to school or what?

 

[kirennia]

And then you get all the little shits doing it on purpose because they hate their parents...

No, just send them to a detention center and if they mess about there, keep them there... if they continue to mess around, bring in a manditory public service thing at 16...if that's legal.

If they don't do that, fucking shoot them.

 

[ilaya]

yes parents should be punished. if they havent set a good example to their kids, saying education is important etc.. then you know you are dealing with the kind of low life scum that used to truant themselves.

we've all bunked off scholl from time to time, but these parents let their kids do it for months on end. if those kids dont get an education... who ends up paying for them? and then THEIR kids?.

you get it.... everyone else.

 

[Afran]

I wouldn't say yes or no to this really, I believe there would have to be exceptions and not a straight law on it.

 

[old.Tohtori]

No.

What they should do is stick the kids in a system like they have for adults, aka, 8-4 work, rest time jail. Take away freedom, keep responsibility.

If you're a criminal, you pay the price, yet you still go to school and MAYBE keep some "repeat" offenders out due to education.

 

[liloe]

yes parents should be punished. if they havent set a good example to their kids, saying education is important etc.. then you know you are dealing with the kind of low life scum that used to truant themselves.

we've all bunked off scholl from time to time, but these parents let their kids do it for months on end. if those kids dont get an education... who ends up paying for them? and then THEIR kids?.

you get it.... everyone else.

Bullshit, because of what Kir wrote. What about parents having a quarrel with their kids, the kids doesn't go to school to "punish" you and bang you go to prison … sounds like a super idea.

No.

What they should do is stick the kids in a system like they have for adults, aka, 8-4 work, rest time jail. Take away freedom, keep responsibility.

If you're a criminal, you pay the price, yet you still go to school and MAYBE keep some "repeat" offenders out due to education.

Exactly.

 

[Bugz]

No - they should shoot them instead.

 

[Laddey]

yes parents should be punished. if they havent set a good example to their kids, saying education is important etc.. then you know you are dealing with the kind of low life scum that used to truant themselves.

we've all bunked off scholl from time to time, but these parents let their kids do it for months on end. if those kids dont get an education... who ends up paying for them? and then THEIR kids?.

you get it.... everyone else.

mate no offence but thats a load of bull shit.

My mum brought me and my brother up best she could as a single parent living on a council estate, bless her she worked 2 jobs through the night. Yet my brother still ended up doing 5 years in jail, fuck all to do with the way my mum brought him up or set a good example.

It's 90% of who you knock about with, this is from personal experience.

And i know you will want to say well ''your mum should of stopped him knockin about with scum'' its easier said than done, would you want her to keep him grounded til he was 16?

anyway, no pun but your statement is a crock of shit

 

[soze]

Tell the parents if their kids does not go to school you will take the kids away and they will lose the nice council flat and child benefits i bet parents will start caring then, as soon as the government notice the parents dont care about the children only the extra money they can really start hurting them.

 

[Huntingtons]

im a hippie. teach the parents to respect another person, and teach the kid to respect another person. People with respect are less likely to do disrespectful shit.

 

[Bugz]

mate no offence but thats a load of bull shit.

My mum brought me and my brother up best she could as a single parent living on a council estate, bless her she worked 2 jobs through the night. Yet my brother still ended up doing 5 years in jail, fuck all to do with the way my mum brought him up or set a good example.

It's 90% of who you knock about with, this is from personal experience.

And i know you will want to say well ''your mum should of stopped him knockin about with scum'' its easier said than done, would you want her to keep him grounded til he was 16?

anyway, no pun but your statement is a crock of shit

Laddey, for once, is right.

 

[russell]

Not jail. The parents should be fined and /or sent to 'positive parenting' classes or to help out at their child's school as a form of 'community' service.

 

[Cadelin]

Not jail. The parents should be fined and /or sent to 'positive parenting' classes or to help out at their child's school as a form of 'community' service.

They probably don't have the money to pay a fine.

They won't turn up to the classes.

Unless you threaten them with something like jail, obviously only as a last resort but that's what it is meant to be now.

 

[Laddey]

the thing that fucks up a childhood is defiantly drugs and chavs. won't be possible to get rid of both so the government is gonna have to work a way around it.

 

[Aoami]

It's hard to teach someone how to be a decent human being. You can tell them what is right and wrong as many times as you like, but if they're not interested, they're not going to change.

Some people are lost causes and these are the people that need to be locked out, the problem is differentiating them from the people that actually want to change.

 

[Uara]

mate no offence but thats a load of bull shit.

My mum brought me and my brother up best she could as a single parent living on a council estate, bless her she worked 2 jobs through the night. Yet my brother still ended up doing 5 years in jail, fuck all to do with the way my mum brought him up or set a good example.

It's 90% of who you knock about with, this is from personal experience.

And i know you will want to say well ''your mum should of stopped him knockin about with scum'' its easier said than done, would you want her to keep him grounded til he was 16?

anyway, no pun but your statement is a crock of shit

As I said to Laddey on Facebook, for once he has actually made a decent point in OT another sure sign of the apocalypse. The parents can work as hard as they like but if the kids fall in with the wrong crowd there's very little they can do!

 

[Lamp]

What if it was YOUR kid bunking off school. What if you've brought your kids up the best you can. They're all sweetness and light at home, but as soon as your back is turned they fall back in with the wrong crowd and turn into animals.

 

[Gorbachioo]

Thats a horrible idea. Sending a parent to jail because of something that their kids do!? Some kids just are fucked up no matter what their parents do. A child can not have that kind of power over his parents.

If something has to be done then it should be done to the kids themselves.

 

[russell]

They probably don't have the money to pay a fine.

They won't turn up to the classes.

Unless you threaten them with something like jail, obviously only as a last resort but that's what it is meant to be now.

You assume that all kids who bunk off come from poor/ chav/ benefit culture families. Not true at all.

The majority of parents (including the roughest pikey chav's Ive met) do actually care about their children and maybe unaware of what to do to get their kids back on the straight and narrow esp if it is bullying, or self esteem, or they are falling behind, in with the wrong crowd, involved in drugs etc -they would go somewhere to get help to sort it out, if they were made to see the severitry of the situation.

Getting them to help out in school -usually makes them see it from a different point of view. Or the threat of this is enough to make the kids come back!!

Lots of things cause children to play truant, you cant blanket it all together. You have to find out the cause rather than waste time bla.ming

 

[russell]

What if it was YOUR kid bunking off school. What if you've brought your kids up the best you can. They're all sweetness and light at home, but as soon as your back is turned they fall back in with the wrong crowd and turn into animals.

Nightmare- all you can do is equipt your kids with enough self esteem and confidence to do their own thing and not always follow the herd.

Sure they may have friends who are 'animals' but they choose to join in or opt out. You show your kids respect from toddler age and you instill in them a respect for others.

But back in the real world, of course they will go off and do drugs and be involved in stuff -you just have to keep your fingers crossed you have done enough groundwork.

 

[Edmond]

Deebs was never at school, he was always bunking off and going down the 'mus to play the slots, he still walked his exams through school and college though

 

[Cadelin]

You assume that all kids who bunk off come from poor/ chav/ benefit culture families. Not true at all.

No I don't. But there will be people who refuse to pay fines and refuse to go to parenting classes. How do you deal with them?

Jail should not be the first way of dealing with a child who plays truant but that's not what is happening now either. A judge would only send someone to jail if they repeated failed to respond to other action. If a parent actually cares about their child they will have been given plenty of information from the school that their child is not attending. Its not like there is a knock at the door at 2am and they are hauled off by the police.