Penny Booth: Does anyone remember child allowance?

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I read this week that if your child truants from school in the future what little value is left of your child benefit could well be reduced still further. I guess that regular truanting indicates that there are alternative activities in your life that are more attractive than teacher/pupil baiting in school a few acts of mild criminal damage hanging round the lavatories or the prospect of an education that will not value your five GCSEs at grades C and above that highly because there are no jobs for you. I have sympathy albeit could not agree with missing school.

I imagine that many teachers are only...

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