tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post2691151767991179548..comments2024-03-20T00:30:11.702-07:00Comments on Home Education Heretic: Look out, it's the truancy patrol!Simon Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10865289865412656573noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post-53600585455103854072009-10-02T02:50:44.910-07:002009-10-02T02:50:44.910-07:00The answer then is for all these timid and underem...The answer then is for all these timid and underemployed people to go and get trunats up and out of bed in the morning once they have not surfaced at school- since presumably the whole point of registration is to spot who isn't there...and they would be guaranteed to be actually on roll pupils...hmmJulienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post-25464922851895551272009-10-01T23:29:12.158-07:002009-10-01T23:29:12.158-07:00You know Julie, one cannot really blame the truanc...You know Julie, one cannot really blame the truancy patrol! Look at it from their point of view. You have a choice btween going where the real truants are likely to be found, as you say the amusement arcades on the seafront, or harassing a respectable looking mother with a child in tow. Which would you rather do? Imagine going into the arcade and trying to question a load of stroppy youths and work out which ones were really registered pupils at a school. Absolute nightmare! It is precisely the same locally. All the truants congregate on a patch of wasteground to drink and smoke with older, former pupils of their school. The truancy patrol is never seen there. Instead, they hang around the high road and cross examine mothers taking their kids to the dentist.Simon Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10865289865412656573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post-88952568085695073312009-10-01T00:19:38.647-07:002009-10-01T00:19:38.647-07:00This very subject was a hot topic at our meeting w...This very subject was a hot topic at our meeting with the LA last night. Our local LA has mostly got it right now, but at the expense of various "interesting" encounters with truancy patrols. So they do accept the claim of home education from a parent and child without further questioning...but do they need to pull the family suddenly out of the till queue in Somerfield to do so? Clearly everyone thought they were shop lifting! And they do look for families in the most odd places - coming out of libraries, or actually in the library studying, or looking at maths books in Waterstones.... clearly highly suspicious! I would have thought the pier or the arcades likelier haunts for truants anyway!Julienoreply@blogger.com