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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Underlying all of this is that there is no way to punish weak parenting without hurting the child even more. You can't take money from parents, or send parents to jail, as punishment for weak parenting, and expect that to help the child. There aren't better environments just waiting to host the child.

Punitive arrangements are useless, unless they are deferred until children are 18 or 21.

Examples of potentially plausible programs:

* Welfare subsidies are $X, plus $Y bonus for students who attend school and submit academic work. This discourages pulling kids out of school to do labor or just hang out

* If a parent fails to put a child through 11 valid years of schooling before age 21, parent does weekends in prison or community service.

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Many of the parents in question already receive welfare benefits, so I don't think that works.

To your point: Some of the underlying problems are character, moral and ethical problems that the school district nor the county government can help. [/quote]

What "welfare benefits" do you think the parents are getting, specifically?[/quote]

Housing, food and likely medical insurance.[/quote]

There is still cash assistance.[/quote]

Not enough of any of this to be the reliable lever the PP seems to imagine.

Sorry, you will have to find some way other than denying basic needs to control people’s behavior.[/quote]

I guess you can continue denied children's basic need for education, to enable neglect. [/quote]

If you think denying food, housing and menial cash assistance is going to improve a situation in which a parent is not regularly getting a kid to school, you are at a degree of separation from reality that is notable.[/quote]

Did you have an absenteeism problem as student? It seems you didn't fully develop your skills in reading informational texts.[/quote]

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