ACT destroyed school lunches, now coming to fine truant parents
Parents could be prosecuted amid school truancy crackdown
The Ministry of Education is poised to pursue prosecutions of parents who repeatedly refuse to ensure their children attend school.
Associate Education Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government would take a firmer approach to school attendance.
“The Ministry of Education is proactively contacting attendance service providers and schools to ensure parents who repeatedly refuse to send their children to school are referred to the ministry,” Seymour said.
After destroying school lunches, one of the few silver bullets to stop truancy, David is now going to start prosecuting parents of truant children.
TDB argues David would start the punitive measures in his second year so he could use it for the election next year because nothing sexually arouses ACT supporters more than punitive measures against Māori, parents of truant children and Marxism.
If Mum or Dad aren’t sending their kids to school, that is a dysfunctional family and punishing them via the Courts is the last thing the situation needs.
By cutting the lunch in schools program, ACT destroyed 2000 local jobs in favour of a trans national with a terrible record overseas.
Will that nice white family who take an extra weeks holiday for skiing season get punished?
No fucking way.
Will a solo parent whose life is collapsing get taken to Court?
You know they will.
Nothing ACT have done since gaining power has been in good faith, so why would you start believing them now?
Here’s the real issue, bullying and poverty…
15,000 Teenagers working up to 50 hours to support families
Teenagers in New Zealand are being faced with a tough choice: a quality education or putting food on the table for their family.
That is the reality for more than 15,000 teenagers taking on 20 to 50 hours of paid work a week on top of study.
The Child Poverty Action Group has released a report examining the extent of the issue and it is calling for urgent support for students who they say are being robbed of their education due to financial pressure.
In Auckland, Ōtāhuhu College Year 13 student River said after school she starts her shift at the local KFC at 4pm which went on until 10pm. On weekends she stays till closing time which was 1am.
All up she works about 40 hours a week on top of her school work.
“I’m always so tired, I’m exhausted when I come to school but I want to come to school to graduate.”
…and what’s ACTs solution to this reality?
$3000 fines.
If you think this is a solution, you are part of the problem!
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Not when that vile cunt Nicola Willis pulls her kids out of school to watch her abuse the poor in Parliament, though, right?
Throwing a pet trumpet. I will if you are allowed your trolling right wing one liners like a silly school kid.
This government is knifing all lower income people in the back – and the middle class, then they will come for you.
Did you know that if knifed with a narrow long blade in the right place you can go on doing things, all unknowing until you fall and probably die. (According to a detective story I read recently.) So keep upright for as long as you can peeps, and don’t expose yourself to cruel, calculating people who are twisted irrevocably.
The option has always been there for parents to be prosecuted and if my memory is correct there has been the odd case in the past. Seymour is just headline hunting.
100% correct just another deflection while he pushes his latest give more to the rich bill through parliament .
‘The option has always been there for parents to be prosecuted and if my memory is correct there has been the odd case in the past.’
Quite correct Allan. In my time as a secondary teacher the obvious, common sense approach is to go and talk to parents. Personally I found every case of truancy could be settled in this way.
Although the option is always there as a last resort nobody but a trumpet, or a Seymour, wants to waste time prosecuting people if you do not have to.
‘need saving from themselves.’
That is true Bob but for yourself, trumpet, I’m right and Trevor. Zelda too.