WASHINGTON - As the District continues to battle one of the highest truancy rates in the country, D.C. councilmembers are considering taking a tougher approach to the growing epidemic.
Councilmember David Catania is proposing up to five days in jail for parents of habitual truants, which account for more than 10 percent of students in the District.
"We as a community have no recourse but to have consequences to those adults who would have these children go uneducated," he says. "I believe that is child abuse."
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2 comments:
If my daughter knew that she could put me in jail by not going to school, she'd be absent every day. You council members are fools if you think this would work. What's better than skipping school? Skipping AND having your parents' house to yourself for you and your friends to party in!
FOOLS wasting time and money...
more like the children need to be in jail without their phones for about a week lol
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