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Going shopping for truants

May 08 08:10am

One shopping mall, Westpoint, in Sydney's west, is taking it upon itself to turf out truants who appear at the centre during school hours.

It's a crackdown on children skipping school that has not been seen before and we're not sure why when it makes good sense.

Do you support this move and do you have any other ideas for cracking down on truants?

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1. fiona.osborn - May 08 12:41pm

Burma.How my heart feels for the Burmese.The devastation on tv shocks. My Dad was of Burmese heritage, born in the Irrawaddy in 1920 & raised in Rangoon. How sad he'd be today. Hopefully aid will bring change. I'd be there to help if I could but will donate. I hope other Australians do too. Fiona.

2. tamrajane1953 - May 09 07:00am

why dont we get the do gooders to find and deal with truants moms and dads cant force them to go to school if you try to force your child to go you can be charged with assault so dont blame the parents all the time

3. prainwithum - May 09 10:47am

Just another example of parents in difficulty outsourcing the blame.
Truancy is also a common alarm bell for troubled students experiencing things such as family breakdown wherein an added consideration or a reaching hand does wonders..
The rest are sheep to the broken...

4. lydiemareedavis - May 11 09:48am

At our school it is reasonably easy to walk out of the school. So afer school and during breaks, teachers are sent out to the front gate, and the shops across the road from the school, to make sure there are no students walking out.

5. kenningtonroberta - May 13 10:08am

So we don't want to got to school, you have one choice go to school or you go into a army style boot camp where you will go to school and guess what you most certainly will come out a honest and upright adult for the future with a educational to boot. Or cut all funding (welfare) from parent/parents

6. ftrappes - May 15 08:43am

I think kicking out the truants from shopping centres is a brilliant idea and will make for a more pleasant shopping experience for the REAL shopper as often these kids hang around in groups intimidating people or being loud and obnoxious.

7. chook86 - May 20 08:08am

Picking children up whom are skipping school is a good idea, I come from a small town and there was alot of rough nuts where I went to school, two of the girls skipped school to go down the "river" and talk about their problems, only one of them came back after lunch, in a mass panic our whole group

8. chook86 - May 20 08:09am

the whole 600 metres to see what had happened, the young girl was thrown in the river in the middle of winter after she was stripped off to her underwear, when the ambulance arrived she was hyperthermic and barely alive, we never heard anything about it ever again. The last thing we remember of her

9. chook86 - May 20 08:09am

was the announcement at assembly of how she had been taken off life support due to her parents discression.
After this incident nobody left school grounds unless they were issued with a lunch pass, I am extremely worried about the "wagging" side of things as I have a 15 year old brother, and do be

10. chook86 - May 20 08:10am

I have a 15 year old brother, and do believe children should be picked up outside of school so nothing like this ever happens again.

It took a tragedy for us to realise....

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