Re: Imprisonment for failing to send child to school or otherwise educate him.

Janitor of Lunacy wrote:
"Gaz" <gazter@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Alasdair wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:28:10 -0000, "Gaz" <gazter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

At the moment, the law is very unevenly applied, some 'communities'
the authorities prefer to 'work with', rather then prosecute....

Gaz

What do you mean by "communities"?

Travellers, specifically, but some others in general.

I've actually met some traveller children who attend school only
rarely but they are educationally, culturally and socially way above
their contemporaries. They they have grown their own vegetables and
caught and cooked their own food; they have read books and not wasted
their time on X-Boxes, X-Factors, or competing to be the biggest
wigger on the block. I'm not surprised the authorities prefer to work
with them, because they are learning skills that actually matter to
them, rather than the details of some obscure battle in 1729 or the
principal industries of Indonesia.

Yes but the children in such circumstance are almost entirely illiterate,
and ordinarily take little part in formal education, they may, as you say,
be wise in other ways, but are ill equipped to live in mainstream society.

Gaz


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