I like that they are putting parents in prison for their children’s truancy. Nothing shapes up kids who have no respect for their parents better than to put their parents in prison and let the kids run around doing whatever they want without any kind of parental oversight. That’ll learn ‘em! Even better would be to train kids who hate their parents to associate their bad behavior with their parents’ incarceration, so that they learn to act out to punish their parents, and then the state enforces the punishment of the parents. But that surely could never happen. Our government is so wonderfully competent, and they never would judge a parent or take a little kid’s word over that of a number of adults and then put the adults in jail even when they’re doing nothing wrong and are trying their best to raise their kids right. Oh, wait… Sorry, yes they would; they do. Never mind.
I still like this idea, though. You know why? Because once these delinquent kids have to go without their parents for long enough, they’ll soon have kids of their own. And then their parents will get out of prison and can bribe their grandchildren into doing things that get their parents put in jail. So long as they keep the same policy, the parents will always be able to get revenge on their kids eventually. And so the cycle continues, and the corrections industry flourishes, creating jobs all over. Oh, yes, and there will be lots of new social worker jobs and stuff as well. Perhaps this is the kind of job-creation engine we need right now. Boom economy, here we come!
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