新南威尔士州未能确保他们的孩子上学而被起诉家长人数飙升

patrickzhu

今天的SMH有一篇报道说，

新南威尔士州未能确保他们的孩子上学而被起诉家长人数飙升。

去年2008年一共有420名家长在被最后通牒之后被起诉。

而在2007年只有100名家长因为没有送孩子上学被起诉。

根据去年5月实施的新制度，学校联络员制定强制家长改正计划。父母如果不参与该计划，在20天内会被起诉和附加$1100的罚款。

数字表明去年一年里，被起诉的家长在新南威尔士州西部地区占了22.5%比例最高。第二个比例最高的悉尼西南部，占了18%。悉尼西部是10。4%。

在悉尼北部地区和新英格兰地区，没有家长受罚。

反对党教育发言人说，工党政府这项政策声称会把不负责任的家长送入监狱，这有些太过分了。

去年4月前省长伊曼告诉州议会，州政府将修订教育法，立法惩处不负责任的父母，以确保他们送孩子去上学。

州政府教育部长表示，该署已进入最后阶段起草修改教育法。

patrickzhu

http://www.smh.com.au/national/p ... -20090511-b0ko.html

Parents given a caning in truancy crackdown

Anna Patty

May 12, 2009

THE number of parents prosecuted for failing to ensure their children attend school has soared since the NSW Department of Education made them more accountable last year.

Figures reveal the department prosecuted 420 parents since it imposed an ultimatum on parents of long-term truants.

In 2007 the State Government reported that 100 parents had been prosecuted over the previous three years for failing to send their children to school.

Under the new system introduced in May last year home school liaison officers are required to develop an attendance improvement plan with parents. Parents who fail to engage with the plan within 20 school days are referred for prosecution, carrying a maximum penalty of an $1100 fine.

The figures show parents in western NSW accounted for 22.5 per cent of prosecutions last year, the highest proportion in the state. The second highest proportion of parents prosecuted were in south-western Sydney, at 18 per cent. In western Sydney the rate was 10.4 per cent.

No parents in northern Sydney or in the New England region were prosecuted for failing to send their children to school.

The Opposition education spokesman, Adrian Piccoli, said the offence should be taken seriously. "When Labor first announced this policy, they said they'd be sending people to jail. We've always said that this was a step too far," Mr Piccoli said.

"The fact that no parents have been sent to jail shows just how flawed this policy was in the first place and reveals Labor's spin-focused approach to education.

"It's not just the Education Department, it's also DOCS, Police and Health that should be there to stop our kids falling through the cracks."

In April last year the former premier Morris Iemma told Parliament the Government would amend the Education Act to introduce laws to punish parents and carers who failed to ensure their children went to school.

"There will be a strong punitive element, including heavy penalties and potentially jail in the most extreme cases of parental neglect and indifference," Mr Iemma said at the time.

A spokeswoman for the Minister for Education, Verity Firth, said the department was in the final stages of drafting changes to the Education Act.

y12345678

New England region
是指哪里？

patrickzhu

原帖由 y12345678 于 2009-5-12 09:31 发表
New England region
是指哪里？

The area known as New England starts at Newcastle and follows the Great Dividing Range upto the Queensland border.