Charles Clarke, the present Minister for Education, is seriously proposing that head-teachers should have the power to fine parents whose children are skipping school.
The proposal has only just been released this morning. It will, of course, die a death almost immediately because it's more than a step towards the sort of totalitarianism of Communist USSR or Nazi Germany but, nevertheless, it's yet another indication of the depth of despair that politicians in the present Labour government have about the fast-crumbling state education system in England. Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
