Should parents face jail for failing to send their children to school?
Laws vary world wide. In some places they may be executed for failing to see to it that the children are “properly” taught what is expected. In some places there are no schools and children are used as cheap labour, sex slaves, or soldier recruits. In some places the schools are there, but are schools that can only offer an education of such low quality that it is better to have them taught at home. This is a very varied planet we live on, with many of different types of cultures. I feel that as long as the parents make a proper effort to see to it that their are ‘somehow’ educated, either via classical schools, correspondence, on-line, home schooling, or private tutoring, then there is no crime … but when the parents just do not make an effort for their children to be able to learn, then there is some sort of a crime … as for jail time, that would depend on specific case details, maybe.
In the UK, they face jail as an extreme resort for failing to educate their child, not for failing to send them to school. Every parent has a duty to see that their child gets an education; in the world we live in, I see that as essential. The state provides a free education, or parents are allowed to educate them at home or send them to private schools. But allowing your children to grow up without the education that will enable them to handle the world they are going into amounts to a form of child abuse. Obviously, every form of persuasion should be used on parents before you take extreme sanctions like imprisonment (which is only short, and intended as a shock). But if the parents cannot be persuaded, what you can do? 1: let the children grow up uneducated – which I have described as a form of abuse; 2: take the children into care so that they can be certain to go to school – very undesirable; 3: fine the parents, which will deprive the children as well as the parents 9who are usua
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