The prosecution of parents for their child’s truancy has very little or no justification in legal or social principle. AAP

Getting tough on truancy: punishing parents is not the answer

Prosecuting parents for a child’s truancy is a reactive response that ignores the real issue. It turns a social problem into a criminal one, at a significant cost to schools, families and society. Recent…

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