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Minister: Fine parents of truant children
Published: 19 Aug 12 15:52 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/education/20120819-44453.html
Germany’s Labour Minister proposed on Sunday to introduce fines to punish parents whose children regularly missed school. In an interview, Ursula von der Leyen warned that truancy was a stepping stone to unemployment.
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"50 percent of the long-term unemployed have no education or professional degree," she said, arguing it was essential that children get a good start in life.
“Fines hurt,” she said, but they must be imposed when parents violate the Education Act. "You should be able to even send the police round to houses," she added.
Von der Leyen did not offer any details of the amount of the fine she was proposing, or how much truancy would be tolerated before it would be imposed, but she said "the principle is right."
This may be tough medicine to take for some, but she did offer one assurance. Parents wont find their unemployment benefits being cut if their children are caught skipping school.
“Money that’s granted due to unemployment cannot be taken to teach the parents a lesson,” she said.
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And for Ministers who get paid to come up with laws that then get overturned within a few years by the Bundesverfassungsgericht.
The ones who don't care about their children are often the ones who care about little in general and are often (not always ) long term unemployed as well .
So who pays the fine the state ,if she had look into it a bit more she would have seen the example in the U.K. who also tried this method with no success.
I believe sadly and I hope I'm wrong that there is a growing underclass who will for generations live on state handouts ,it is 100% the case in the U.K. lets not let Germany go down that path we need politicians with radical ideas to get out of this hole not smart sounding sound bits.
This sentence alone made me laugh out loud....
Before German politicians find a real or better solution, lets get the money! How bout Greece leaving the Euro zone and defaulting on their debt to Germany that will last generations? Why do you think Germany is going above and beyond to keep Greece in the Eurozone?
Does anyone really think that fining already cash strapt families that this will help or help more the German koffers?
But then again, politicians don't want this.... they wouldn't have a job if things were done correctly!
I am in a free country but then my mum and dad didn't get fined :-).
Maybe Germans should elect politicians from real life, not the fat cat aristocracy who obviously lives in fairyland.
I am a Englishman living in Germany with one just left school and the other half way through.
I am in total agreement with what you wrote see #2
18:53 August 19, 2012 by Englishted .
However on your last paragraph the same could be said of the U.K. with their public school educated little rich boys who have never worked or lived in the real world.
We should start a pan European anti politicians in charge party.