Truancy Vs De-Schooling

[Iftikhar]

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[stringjack]

Jacqui Smith, the School Standard Minister, announced a crack down on the “stubborn minority of 888 students at 146 schools who were responsible for a fifth of all truancy. Teachers will be required to identify the most persistent offenders and their parents will be threatened with jail if attendance does not improve.

This is not self-evident nonsense?

Similarly bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools for balanced education by bilingual Muslim teachers so that their parents would not take them to Pakistan during term times.

...or one could simply arrest such parents and place their children into state care, which it seems might well be in their interests.

If you wanted to relate any of this to Illich at some point, please feel free.

[Libero]

Not to mention the fact that he conflates Muslim and bilingual.

While some small areas of London have a Muslim community all from the same background (e.g. Bengali in Bethnal Green), most are from different countries with different languages.

There is also no guarantee that teaching through Pakistani languages (of which there are more than one anyhow) would reduce the tendancy of parents to take their children there during term time.

[meriwether]

Not to mention the fact that he conflates Muslim and bilingual.

While some small areas of London have a Muslim community all from the same background (e.g. Bengali in Bethnal Green), most are from different countries with different languages.

There is also no guarantee that teaching through Pakistani languages (of which there are more than one anyhow) would reduce the tendancy of parents to take their children there during term time.

Libero, I presume that is your good self in those photos? You remind me a little bit of Kevin Kilbane.

[coconut]

No wonder this "strategy" failed. Sounds a bit fascist to me; threatening parents with jail because their children are brats...? I think that's quite sad.

[Libero]

Libero, I presume that is your good self in those photos? You remind me a little bit of Kevin Kilbane.

Yeah, but he isn't cross-eyed.