#truancy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #truancy, aggregated by home.social.
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California law repealing criminal penalties for parents of chronically truant kids took effect yesterday. Kamala Harris was, of course, a big fan of this when she was San Francisco County DA.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB461
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/california-harris-truancy-00591137
#Antischooling #deschooling #California #Truancy #CompulsorySchooling #ACAB
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CW: NZPol School Avoidance
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When your child physically shakes at the thought of school…
When your child cannot use their words to explain their fear…
When you’re called every day to pick up your child because they’re so upset…You are lost in the system.
These are not hypotheticals. These are the real stories shared with me by parents of disabled tamariki, all ten-years-old and under."
#NZPol #Education #SchoolAvoidance #Truancy
https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/guilty-shamed-and-traumatised-what/
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"As a result, Dunbabin said they're seeing some children come to school on lunch days and not on other days."
#JohnGerritsen, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/544587/school-lunch-provider-turns-to-australia-for-help
I wonder how much Rimmer is spending on truancy officers to in his attempts to increase school attendance? Maybe that money would be better spent on providing school lunches that students actually want to eat?
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CW: NZPol Truancy
"“Schools and attendance services are not well set up to enforce attendance,” the report explained.
“Just over half of school leaders (54%) and just over three in five attendance service staff (62%) do not think there are good options to enforce attendance and hold people accountable. Schools that have tried to prosecute have found the process complex and costly.”
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Seymour: "Let's fine already impoverished parents."#NZPol #ERO #Truancy #SchoolAbsences
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360467791/record-numbers-kiwi-kids-chronically-absent-school
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‘She wants to go to school’: parents of unwell child fear truancy prosecution | School attendance and absence | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/15/parents-unwell-child-fear-truancy-prosecution#SickKids
#Truancy
#TruancyProsection
#Migraine
#SingleJusticeProcedure
#MagistratesAssociation
#EHCP
#EHCPlan
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had a conversation with a parenting friend and guess we'll have to pay kids to go back to school at some point 😬 #truancy #absenteeism
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England’s secondary schools are Dickensian. No wonder children are staying away | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/08/englands-secondary-schools-are-dickensian-no-wonder-children-are-staying-away#Schools
#SecondarySchools
#Truancy
#PersistentAbsenteeism
#Keegan
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This is why uneducated laypersons shouldn't pretend to be experts in subjects they clearly have no expertise in. Yes, there's a link between #truancy and drug use, teen #pregnancy, #delinquency, and low self-esteem. However, a CAUSAL link hasn't been established. This #judge doesn't understand the significance of that, and assumed that imposing draconian punishments for truancy would somehow mitigate those other conditions. Correlation isn't causation, judge.
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Bloody Labour wanting to centralise everything! Oh wait... this is ACT policy announced in 2022...
"Accountability for schools through mandatory reporting - Schools would be required to report their attendance daily and failing to do so would risk losing funding."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/479586/act-launches-truancy-policy-for-schools