This is nationwide, apparently. This is just the infographic that the Nottingham council put out
Wait so the state has made it illegal to take your child out of school but also it's a fine so rich parents who can afford week long vacations will just add this in as an expense
I guarantee private schools won't implement this. It's only going to be implemented by state schools to punish the poors.
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/08/05/travelling-during-school-time-here-are-the-fines-parents-could-face-across-europe
German police have been known to actively check airports for families taking unauthorised school-time holidays, communicating with schools to assess whether absence has been cleared.
germans cannot help but be cops about absolutely everything
(Netherlands) School absenteeism can be fined at €100 euros per day up to a maximum of €600 euros per family for one week and €900 for two weeks.
One day is a bit steep but at least they give you a discount if you do the whole two weeks in Phuket trip
(UK) Milder consequences of taking your child on holiday during school time without the school’s permission include being issued a parenting order by the court. This means you have to go to parenting classes. You may also be issued with an education supervision order or a school attendance order.
"Your attempt at fun has been noted. Please proceed to parental reeducation camp
At least norway and sweden seem somewhat chill
Oh man let me tell you a story, when i was a kid i grew up and went to school in Turkey. But it was still advantageous to provide a secondary address in germany because of some legal stuff, which my parents did.
Noting that us kids weren't registered in any school, they sent fucking CPS to this secondary address with police in tow scaring the bejeesus out of the friend who was living at that address and forwarding letters sent there.
I dont know what exactly they were planning, like take us to a home or just scare those "religious nuts" straight. But we were safe and sound in Turkey lmao. Sent them a mail reminding them what a primary and a secondary address is, dumbass bureaucrats.
Anyway we had to go to german school during summerbreak that year because we had booked our plane tickets already and it was still school there. Which didn't suck, but I rather wouldn't have.
parenting classes
I'd bet these suck balls too, and don't achieve what they want to achieve. It'll probably be staffed by the worst people they can hire to scold said parents.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
the widely differing art styles for every kid in this picture makes me think it's just different illustrations downloaded from some stock site without paying the artist. which we've all done for some project or other sure but it's pretty gross when a government council does it in for an ad threatening to steal money from parents
Truancy penalties have sadly been a thing in the UK for a fair few years now. It's a really idiotic system. Some schools refuse to implement it in practice, but it is effectively mandatory (and has achieved nothing).
As someone who lived a povertous upbringing and had a ~20% absence rate in school, this would've absolutely destroyed me and my family if it had been in effect then.
People gotta start making politicians afraid to do shit like this
personally i think constantly about how to instill useful fear in the political class that isn't just something that'll get me sent to a blacksite or executed
got no answers yet, i'm usually good at tests so i'll get back to you
The prime minister of Denmark got lightly pushed by a drunk polish man recently, and she's still not over it. Had all the politicians here come out and condemn "the violent attack". They seemed real freaked out. So uhhh, if you ever just get the chance to shoulder-check them, that should be more than enough
Some say he's still drunk and Polish to this day
Sicced the security apparatus on him, had a manhunt until he got caught. I think he received the harshest punishment you can get in Denmark: Deported to Poland
We had a similar incident here with the ex-Treasurer. Being forced to actually interact with a member of the working class is enough to give them the vapours.
This is a middle class centrist's wet dream. They'll happily pay this fine just so they know they'll be punishing the "unworthies"
For anyone curious, here's NPR doing their best to run cover for "The Story Behind Kamala Harris' Truancy Program"
Passed in 2011, the law allowed district attorneys to charge parents with a misdemeanor if their children missed 10 percent of the school year without a valid reason.
Proud high school truant checking in to say that this is not the way schools should work. There are many valid paths to an education. Schools are often impediments to education. I have no disrespect for anyone with more important shit to do. Sometimes having a life requires some attention, and can have transformative educational impact.
CW for mental health, suicide
I was extremely anxious and depressed in school. I tried to kill myself rather than go to school many times. I skipped school a lot because I saw it as the only way to save my life.
Nice to know that if I lived in the UK and was in school a few years later, the government would have just robbed my parents of all their money. I'm sure coercing a depressed teenager into a place that makes them suicidal by threatening their parents financial stability couldn't go wrong
self harm
I remember one time in elementary school I was sitting at the foot of my bed hitting my ankle with a baseball hoping I would get injured so I wouldn't have to go to school. I wasn't even bullied or anything, I just really, really didn't want to go. Never brought it up, nobody ever saw. Still had to go to school.
I've also started mentioning it now that I'm an adult. Never got a reaction more than "huh, interesting" though I feel like that was a super fucked up moment.
I'd sleep with windows open and no blanket just so I could get sick and stay home. On the plus side I am now very hearthy!
For once I'm glad to live in the Wild West where they don't give a shit whether or not our kids go to school.
(Of course, that's because they want us to homeschool or send them to private schools.)
I actually wouldn't be surprised if they tried something like this in the US. Absenteeism has been pretty bad since COVID and I'm sure they'd love something this punitive to the poor to try and "solve" the problem
Eh, half of the US government’s goal for decades has been to fully dismantle the public education system so I don’t think they really care about encouraging attendance. They want it to be low.
But have you considered that they also hate the poor
Fair point. I actually really wouldn’t be surprised to see that in places like California and New York.
in the US they just jump straight to cops and prosecution. though I don't know if its this strict most places
Where I work, if a kid shows up every once in a while it's enough to keep CPS away
Something something contradiction between pursuit of profit and reproduction of society.
Wondering that myself. I mean is this purely just another mundane method of keeping the proles in line, another little way of siphoning whatever droplets of wealth that working people might have away from them? Or am I missing something?
