Renegade Mother Slips Through The Net
admin on Jul 5th 2009
Quotes (from The Sunday Times):
- An urgent investigation has been ordered into whether rules aimed at preventing lying parents from flouting the schools admissions system should be toughened.
- Harrow council dropped its case…because they were unsure that the Fraud Act would cover admissions cases.
- Their decision exposes the lack of legislation to prosecute school admission cheats and may lead to middle-class parents becoming more brazen in their attempts to colonise the best schools.
- Council leaders said they were considering using perjury laws in future cases…….
(These are quotes from the reporters and my italics.)
So no stone is being left unturned to find a way to persecute – oops, prosecute – lying, fraudulent, cheating and brazen parents who are callously intent on getting their children the best education.
And if that doesn’t get the desired results there are always the anti-terrorist laws. Pour encourager les autres, perhaps?
(Note. The mother in question has now put her child into a private school. That still leaves a lot of poor people to browbeat, though.)
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