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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 24th 2014, 8:51 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

All true :) FWIW, all the things I have learned about Malta I learned mainly when visiting, the rest through sites like BE and the internet in general. Mind you, I didn't spend the whole time sitting...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 24th 2014, 8:11 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

Exactly. :goodpost: Shard. Now while you lot are going on about how the kid has a "lost opportunity" by missing school whilst on vacation (which is ridiculous IMO, you learn a lot more from traveling...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 24th 2014, 4:37 am
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

This happens to me all the time. I've gotten home some days and my mum is fuming "why were you out of x period today!!!" and me giving her a garbled look like "Damn well I wasn't!" ...


I can...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 23rd 2014, 2:59 am
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

I agree. I mean I've always thought schools in the UK and the whole politics and drama surrounding it were a bit intense but I never knew it went this far. :unsure:


Or homeschooling on a...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 22nd 2014, 3:42 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

:lol: And we all know the likelihood of that happening
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 22nd 2014, 3:37 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

The school system has really lowered in quality in the last 15-20 yrs. It used to be about the kids and their learning experience. Now its all about the state, the numbers, how "good" the school is,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 22nd 2014, 3:26 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

I agree. Its ridiculous. Me, I am absent from school for various "unauthorised" reasons during the year, nothing more than a phone call to the house by the secretary, who speaks to my mum/dad, and...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 21st 2014, 2:20 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

So, yes, opportunity lost on the child. Opportunity to go on his possibly last vacation-lost.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 21st 2014, 2:20 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

So taking it to the case of this child here who was denied leave to go on his possibly last vacation with his mum and dad- really? I don't think his state-forced 'education' is going to help him in...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 21st 2014, 2:03 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

Wasted? The teachers still have to go to work to teach the other kids. :confused:

Maybe the parents who decide to homeschool should be refunded the tax monies that they are forced to pay into...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 21st 2014, 1:41 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

Just another way the state wants to control our children. Honestly... You have to apply for leave during the school year for your ****ing kid? He/she is your kid, should you not be able to take...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 21st 2014, 1:34 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 2,035
Posted By Gozit

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

Absolutely ridiculous. Tbh if the child only has that time to live, he shouldn't be in school. He should be doing things he truly enjoys doing. Parents could surely "homeschool" him in the eyes of...
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