What does the text talk about?Many children do not go to school either because their parents want them at home as careers for
siblings, or simply because their parents cannot be bothered to send them. Thousands more are not
registered at any school at all, because of their families' unstable lives.
Underlying this dreadful situation there are two central truths. First of all, the problem of children
not going to school often has more to do with their parents than with the children themselves.
Secondly, once children go to school, we need to make sure that the experience is a positive one
so that they want to keep on going.
In Britain, the Ministry of Education has introduced a complex package of sticks and carrots to
persuade schools to bring truants' and excluded children back into the classroom. It is paying grants
so that a thousand schools can set up special units to help these children. Schools receive the grant
if they bring a target number of children back to school; if they do not meet the target, the grant is
withdrawn. Parents are the subject of this campaign, too: the Home Office has introduced fines for
parents who fail to send their children to school, and has given the police power to pick up truants
on the streets.
A. Children for whom school has no point
B. Families unstable lives
C. Parents for whom school has no point
D. Education for children