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Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 22nd 2014, 6:27 pm

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Cracking down on truancy!

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

Every time my children take time out of school, whether for a medical appointment, an extracurricular event, or (heaven forfend) a vacation, we are expected to inform the school board. In my school...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 22nd 2014, 3:53 pm

Replies: 52

Cracking down on truancy!

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

Careful... nobody has suggested parents can't take kids out of school. In this case (the banker from Chelmsford with a dead American grandfather), the parents don't appear to have followed the...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 22nd 2014, 1:08 pm

Replies: 52

Cracking down on truancy!

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

Headlines can be somewhat misleading, can't they? The child in that case had 22 days of unauthorised absence from school between September 2013 and March this year, according to the news report of...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 21st 2014, 5:56 pm

Replies: 52

Cracking down on truancy!

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

I suspect the key phrase here is "threatened with." This smacks of the Head trying to intimidate parents, rather than any real likelihood that a case such as this would be prosecuted. There are...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 21st 2014, 2:08 pm

Replies: 52

Cracking down on truancy!

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Cracking down on truancy!

It does appear to be an ill-thought-out policy, more to do with Gove's dogmatic "I know best" attitude than with any intention or expectation that it will actually make the education system more...

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