Children playing truant... does it really matter?

Question

After all these sort of kids that play truant are the kids that won't get any GCSE's whether they are in school or not, and lets face it if they are not in school then at least they won't be attacking a teacher and surely while they are playing truant they can be learning new skills that will benefit them later in life like washing windscreens and shoplifting.

Answer 1

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?

If the lorry driver we just had in our yard is anything to go by they will be able to get jobs. Spoke very little English, got his HGV license from a lucky dip at the carnival and took 4 attempts to write down the number of the seal (lock) on the container he was taking. He's on the A14 now so look out for him if you're in that area.

Answer 2

Here in the USA it's against the law for children to be truant, and their parents will be taken to jail if the children are truant.

People today can hardly get good paying jobs to support a family unless they have an MBA. And while it used to be difficult to get a job without a high school education ten years ago, today it's difficult ot get a job without a college degree. So you see the skills they need to be learning are from an institution of higher learning.

If a child has a learning disability, or is not good at book learning, the child should be tested for what skills they have and can do and guided to a technical field in which they would be able to use those skills to the best of their ability, and so that they can be part of the earning society which would not only increase their stability but make them feel good about themselves as well.

Answer 3

It matters.
If their parents don,t give a damn whether thier kids are
in school or not, someone has got to look after them and
moniter each situation. Equally they may have parents
that do care and do not realise their child has been led
astray by a friend who is calling them 'chicken'.
I think the School Board Man should come knocking.
Children should be afraid of them!! That would make
them go to school. The question we could ask is
'Why don't they want to go to school' because another
reason for truancy could be that they are being bullied.
If these get through the net will this mean another child
'hanging themself' through sheer depression at the way
they are being treated at school.
Once again IT MATTERS.

Answer 4

It does matter. Schools are in place for a reason. They aren't holiday camps they are there for our children to get a good standard of education so that they can go on to college and university. Some parents allow their children to get away with too much and blame their kids truanting on them being bored etc.. Tough so was i but i still went to school and passed my gcse's. Get them to school so the parents know where they are and then you'll get less asbo's, shop lifting and whatever else they choose to do when their just bumming around

Answer 5

These sort of kids? So you have already written off some children, who are growing up in different circumstances than that of your own children, assuming you have any.
I cannot accept that children can be written off. I could ask you what your political leanings are, but, in the first place, I think I already know, and in the second place, I think your argument is more than a little warped.
My father's generation fought a war which was, ostensibly to protect the UK from people with such thoughts. How are the mighty fallen?

Answer 6

They need to be in school, so that we know where they are. I'm against all this home schooling as well, we need some more order in society.

If they're too dangerous for school, they should be in juvenile detention, not free to roam the streets.

If they don't get many GCSE's, at least they can learn a bit more. School is about learning, not diplomas. Perhaps they shouldn't be allowed to drop out until 21 unless they have some qualifications.

Answer 7

It matters totally - it is safer for the kids to be in school than out of it - also they learn many more valuable life skills such as responsibility, respect for others, social skills and self-discipline as well as their academic subjects.

The ones roaming the streets need even more help as they are the ones not having those values instlled in them at home.

I work in a senior school and know absolutely that even the most disruptive, undisciplined and unruly children can be changed to become valuable members of society from the support and help they get in school

Answer 8

I work at lot with children who don't attend school, can be for various reasons, bullying, them being a carer, or parents do not give a toss whether there in school or not. I generally believe that at the age of 14 they should be a choice of training in a vocational sense, and maybe these children would want to train, as it should benefit them.

Answer 9

Being in the commute occupation i dont trust they must be allowed to attempt this because the costs on holiday journeys rockets everywhere close to the children 0.5 words or summer holiday journeys. putting households lower than pressure through declaring there going to be fined because they prefer to take there children away someplace throughout the time of time period time is a shaggy dog tale if any of you referred to how a lot more beneficial money it is as an get mutually taking your children away in would throughout the time of time period time you look to keep about a nil.33 to 0.5 of the the cost you would pay in case you went in college holiday journeys. Its basically yet in a unique way the authorities has discovered to make an excuse to apply earnings route of colleges in different elements at the same time as those £50 prices will be used to fund the colleges. so long because the children are not any further being taken out in major years as an get mutually (exam years) i see no issue. desire all of it is smart.

Answer 10

To be honest I think you have a point.....

Why have a class totally disrupted by a kid that doesn't want to be there - I think there should be day centres or something not just let them walk the street. But if they hate school so much they should be given an alternative.