On 11 Jan 2006 14:37:05 -0800, boracaybill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> ... 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.
***
If I were a child in the Phils I would wonder if it were worthwhile to
go to school and university for 20 years to make a salary sufficient
to subsist.
Or alternatively, add ten more years to the twenty and $5000, emigrate
to a progressive land, make more money putting your college degree to
work as janitor, send most home, and subsist.
Its called despair. And of course the traditional alternative in the
Philippines (and most other places) is some scam, some trick to screw
somebody, and get rich (or get time). As with most gamblers, the
mentality is to "figure out those machines and beat them", in the
process getting hooked by a one-arm bandit and morphing into a Pavlov
Dog (Pig?).
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