Julia Gillard's latest plan to end truancy - ban serial truants from the sporting field !
Kids who dodge school will not be allowed to play any sport at premium level. The idea is to make a good school attendance record conditional on earning the big money - and fame - that goes with being selected to the top level of all sports.
If this crazy idea is ever adopted it will hit hardest where it will do the most damage. Truancy is endemic in remote Aboriginal communities - and judging by their numbers in League, AFL and Union - many Aboriginal kids have found their salvation when their aptitude for sport has been discovered.
Does Julia really think that little primary grade kids are going to mend their ways and dutifully attend school - because they have aspirations to make it big on the footy field in later life ?
Sounds like the " carrot and stick " approach - but in this case a whopping big stick - and no carrot !
Back to the drawing board ! Make school a more interesting place - and do a big sell to the parents who are indifferent to the advantages of education - and forget about making sport conditional on ending truancy.
At best - that idea sounded like election eve desperation !
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