November 29, 2022
Six of the best no answer for truant parents
Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis says the National’s plan to fine parents if their children don’t go to school won’t work.
The former school principal says while National’s grandstanding may appeal to a certain section of the population, the answers are social and economic rather than criminal.
“Whipping parents, for want of a better word, just doesn’t work. It’s never worked, it didn’t work when I was a principal, it won’t work now. It is just posturing. We’ve just got to be a lot more intelligent with our solutiins to the issues that are facign whanau,” he says.
Mr Davis says school need to be made attractive for tamariki and the parents needs to be supported to get their kids to turn up.