I suspect you are correct. It is shameful that in Manila (and in Davao that
I know of first-hand) that children are allowed to wander freely during
the
day off of school grounds. There are some private schools that keep good
control of their students (one of them closed their side entrance during
the
day which effectively ruined my brother-in-law's sari-sari business
located
just outside the gate - not that I am crying about that) but public
schools
don't seem to have much control at all.
<boracaybill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> ... Pass laws with strict truancy provisions ...
>
> Well, there is the Child and Youth Welfare Code of the Philippines,
> Articles 59(6) and 60 of which say the following:
>
> ---begin quote
> Art. 59. Crimes. - Criminal liability shall attach to any parent who:
> <snip>
> (6) Causes, abates, or permits the truancy of the child from the school
> where he is enrolled. "Truancy" as here used means absence without
> cause for more than twenty schooldays, not necessarily consecutive.
>
> It shall be the duty of the teacher in charge to re****t to the parents
> the absences of the child the moment these exceed five schooldays.
> <snip>
> "Parents" as here used shall include the guardian and the head of the
> institution or foster home which has custody of the child.
>
> Art. 60. Penalty. - The act mentioned in the preceding article shall be
> punishable with imprisonment from two or six months or a fine not
> exceeding five hundred pesos, or both, at the discretion of the Court,
> unless a higher penalty is provided for in the Revised Penal Code or
> special laws, without prejudice to actions for the involuntary
> commitment of the child under Title VIII of this Code.
> ---end quote
>
> See
> http://www.chanrobles.com/childandyouthwelfarecodeofthephilippines.htm
>
> Passing that law (Presidential Decree 603, actually) doesn't seem to
> have solved the problem. One suspects that the law is not being
> efectively applied.
>
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