Parents could be proscuted & fined fr non attendance

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Uneducated fodder for the shit jobs.or the unemployment  ..........you all complain about rimmer but whats your solution to the problem

if you don’t know who rimmer is google red dwarf

Okay. The reality is most of our truants or unschooled children do perfectly fine in later life, some in fact exceed expectations in any number of ways. My own deeply challenging child has proved this to be true, much to my own chagrin.

Later in life, well after parenting I had the privilege and opportunity of studying and researching the history and development of western systems of education, and that experience leaves me very sceptical about the way we do this vital task, and why we do it. There are better ways than imposing standardisation in this process, but those alternatives foster traits, talents, and skill strengths that might threaten the way we run our communities. Hence they remain 'alternative' in the other sense of the word.

But I remain optimistic that future parenting generations have better experiences with the education of their children. Maybe the inevitable revolution by AI will foster that...