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Nearly 12,000 parents were prosecuted and 25 given prison sentences because of their children's truancy from school last year, the Guardian reported.

Just over 9,000 were convicted, and nearly two-thirds of those were fined.

The longest jail sentence imposed on a parent was 90 days, according to the Ministry of Justice. The highest fine imposed last year was 850 pounds.

Government figures show that more than 450,000 children -- 7 percent of the school population -- persistently missed school in autumn 2010 and spring 2011.

That means they missed 15 percent of school days -- a level of absence equivalent to skipping a month's worth of lessons in a year. （點擊《衛報》查看原文）

英國孩子逃學家長坐牢

???????據《衛報》報道，去年，英國有近1.2萬名家長因孩子逃學而被起訴，25名家長被判刑。

???????有超過9000名家長被宣布罪名成立，其中三分之二的被判罰款。

???????司法部稱，最長刑期是一名家長被判坐牢90天，而最高額罰款達850英鎊。

???????政府提供的數據表明，2010年秋季學期和2011年春季學期，英國有45萬多學生經常性逃學，這個數據占到在校學生人數的7%。

???????這意味這他們逃課逃掉了整個學期天數的15%，相當于整整一個月的課程。

(China.org.cn November 10, 2011)