c/globalnews · by BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 2y

Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils

‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

Archived version: https://archive.ph/UiD8s

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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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Onii-Chan@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y

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Kaboom@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 2y

One “deeply vulnerable” woman came to him in great distress because the local authority was taking her to court for not sending her 14-year-old daughter into school.

“Her daughter wasn’t going in because she was pregnant. She was involved in county lines [drug trafficking] and she was being sexually abused by a drug dealer,” he said.

Wtf England? Whoever set up that needs to be fired.

CaptObvious@literature.cafe · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

So police are taking a page from their American counterparts?

rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Well for that to be true, the cops would need to see 2 unrelated things and then assume a black person committed a crime.