Truancy penalties have sadly been a thing in the UK for a fair few years now. It’s a really idiotic system. Some schools refuse to implement it in practice, but it is effectively mandatory (and has achieved nothing).
As someone who lived a povertous upbringing and had a ~20% absence rate in school, this would’ve absolutely destroyed me and my family if it had been in effect then.
Truancy penalties have sadly been a thing in the UK for a fair few years now. It’s a really idiotic system. Some schools refuse to implement it in practice, but it is effectively mandatory (and has achieved nothing).
As someone who lived a povertous upbringing and had a ~20% absence rate in school, this would’ve absolutely destroyed me and my family if it had been in effect then.
the brits are the original poor haters so this tracks
Brits innovated a lot of methods to fuck the poor.