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18 March 2006 Parents get curfew and tagged for 'truancy' Parents of a 16 year boy in Wales have been tagged and curfewed after they didn't meet the terms of a parenting order made after a conviction for failing to send their son to school. I think this will have been under the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. See BBC News Online. The article doesn't say how long the tagging order is for. The boy was 16 and the parents both 52. It would seem quite likely that they were having trouble getting him to school. It is reported that the parents were going out to the pub and bingo. Quel horreur. I think this speaks for itself. In fact quite a few parents (a lot of them seem to be single Mums) have been prosecuted for failing to send their children to some horrible school or other. Fines, fixed penalty notices, prison, parenting orders and (on breech of a parenting order) tagging and curfews are all now options. Um, that seems like a postive approach to the problem. So, just how is humilating his elderly parents right in front of him going to improve this young man's life chances? This is the bizzare double-speak of New Labour. It manages, North Korean style, to impose draconian social compliance while talking about opportunity and 'inclusion'. |