‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    One “deeply vulnerable” woman came to him in great distress because the local authority was taking her to court for not sending her 14-year-old daughter into school.

    “Her daughter wasn’t going in because she was pregnant. She was involved in county lines [drug trafficking] and she was being sexually abused by a drug dealer,” he said.

    Wtf England? Whoever set up that needs to be fired.

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    6 months ago

    The UK really has become an unmitigated shithole ever since the conservatives managed to make Brexit a reality. Nowadays I appreciate the island for having the decency not to touch us, and to serve as both a warning and an example to Europeans about what could happen on the mainland if we let it.

    Fuck the UK (gov) and fuck the Tories.

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      6 months ago

      Well for that to be true, the cops would need to see 2 unrelated things and then assume a black person committed a crime.