Re: the requirement that the state *provide* an education

In article <g68n52$496$02$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On one hand that's a good thing because losing track of a child is very 
> hard here. If you have a child that's old enough to go to school (6 and 
> over) you will get a letter informing you about which school your child 
> is "expected to show up at" and I guess if you don't register at that 
> school (I'm not sure if we now have a choice, they changed the laws 
> around that I think, but possibly you can register you child at any 
> primary school in your district now, anyway..)  you get follow up 
> letters and probably a visit from the Jugendamt (cps) to inform you 
> about your rights and duties and if you/your child doesn't go to school 
> you/your child can be forced to do so, if necessary it'll be picked up 
> by the Police and escorted to school.

And has this improved the life of the bottom decile of the population, for

example?  What's generational poverty like in Germany?

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