Principals would get access to students' criminal histories and have the power to ban people from school grounds under proposed new Queensland laws.
"Disruptive or hostile people make it harder for principals and teachers to do their jobs," Mr Langbroek said in the statement.
Under the changes, he said, "principals and teachers will be able to focus on their core business of educating students".
The proposed legislation would also enable regional directors to prosecute parents for "failing to comply with compulsory attendance requirements", he said.
Students with criminal records? 
Excellent. Why should the kids who go to school to learn be disrupted by these kids that just want to cause trouble.
I don't agree with the parents being charged because some kids can't be made to attend school.
@am*3 wrote:
Some parents are totally negligent. Can't be bothered getting up in the morning to get young children ready for school etc. Their children have a very low attendance at school over the school year. Which means they aren't getting the education they deserve.
Those parents deserve to be prosecuted.
Absolutely, however is it legal to have different strokes for different folks.
I suppose there could be a criteria where parents whose children refuse to go to school, can contact the school and check in. That shows that they are making an effort.
@karliandjacko wrote:
@am*3 wrote:Why would it be different strokes for different folk? . Any parent who can't get their (esp. primary aged children) to school regularly throughtout the year deserve some action taken against them.
I can't imagine having a child that flatly refuses to go to school. There has got to be a reason and it's up to the parent to find it and deal with it appropriately. My cousin has a sister in law that refuses to go to school and the mother just seems to accept it and lets her sit at home and whinge all day while getting fatter and fatter. Whatever problems she had are compounded by the failure to act on the problem earlier. Now she's about 15 heading for a life of unemployability.
You say esp primary school. High school would be where the most problems are.
Say you are a sole parent, no big burly boyfriend around, your teenage high school students says I'm not going to school, You have had the deep and meaningfuls, been to counselling etc, non of which have worked. What then do you suggest, Should the size 8 petite miss put said teenage goliath over her shoulder in the fireman's carry.
There are different circumstances.
I have known of a parent who drover her daughter to high school each morning, walked her to the door, and by the time the parent got home the school was ringing. She's gone.
This parent made the effort, should this parent then be charged because said teenager did not attend class.
There is the flip side of course. I know a young girl who was kept out of high school to do the domestics and look after her mother. The young girl now in her twenties has taken herself back to school/tafe to try and make up for what she was forced to lose by her "I can't cope with the day' mother.
jmo but those parents do not fit into the same category
