Truancy at Wisbech School, Parents Blamed

By Laura_Spodula | Sunday, July 25, 2010, 22:43

I read in the Wisbech Standard this week that a local school is blaming the parents for truancy. Now this is always coming up as an issue with secondary schools because most of the time the children, because they are older, are responsible for themselves getting to school on time or at all. When I read the actual article it was about Nene Infant School, now at this age, who else is going to be responsible but the parents or whoever looks after them?

The school is saying that they could have got an even higher review from Ofsted if all families put a high priority on getting to school.

Do you think that parents should be blamed for truancy, both at secondary and primary?

What could be done to clamp down on truancy?

Do you think the methods put in place already are enough?

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The trouble is Edna our generation was encouraged to go to work to help our familys make ends meet, it was a simple case of economics, we wanted to eat so we bought home some money and to keep a roof over our heads we went to work. We incouraged our daughter as well to go to university and were very proud when she went, hoping she would find a career that would last a lifetime but whats out there? Not a lot im afraid. Nobody can take her degree away but she cant at the moment use it. Result is frustration and student debt !

By specss at 21:53 on 29/07/10
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I wonder how many people like you specss played truant from school and dont admit to it. It seems as if you learnt a valuable lesson in saying you shouldnt take things for granted ,but unfortunately i bet if you would pass this information onto the younger generation, they wouldnt listen. Education is very important but we always realise this when it is too late. I did listen when i was at school, did quite well, but left to get a job instead of staying on to further my education. I have regretted this several times throughout my career. My daughter once said go to night school and do them, but unfortunately my memory isnt what it use to be and i wouldnt be able to retain the information.What prospects have the younger generation got though, they further their education, get into debt, then cant find a job to pay it off.

By Edna_W at 20:25 on 28/07/10
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Much to my shame i played truant all the time when i was at secoundy modern, my parents were not to blame my dad would almost drag me there and i was back home before he was. I just did not wont to be there doing stuff that was not of any use to me or so i thougt at the time. How wrong i was, to think that way and i have paid for it all my working life. I have had try and make up for it and i have to some extent but to day its not that simple. To have little education today with jobs at a premium is suicide. Its the same old story we take every thing for granted, countries that do not have our priviliges treat education as a great honour to be able to go to school and learn, its a way out of poverty. Laws were passed so every body had the chance to be educated not just the few who could afford it, so not to go to school is against those laws i dont think there are any grey areas.

By specss at 18:06 on 28/07/10
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Did you know that 10% is the rate of truancy at the Thomas Clarkson? One of the highest in the county?
Let's not blame someone else but ask why this is so.
A hundred years ago, and in India, Africa and Asia today, school was something you paid for. It was a privilege. How did we glide into the position where not going is a punishable offence?

By prziloczek at 07:40 on 26/07/10
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