Maximum penalty low

Parents force 60 children to “play truant”

Truancy as a remnant of the pandemic is keeping the courts busy. In Upper Austria, for example, there are around 60 children who are forced by their parents to stay at home with mommy and daddy without a break and are not given any lessons at all. Only 440 euros is the "maximum penalty" for this notorious truancy - too little to exert any real pressure.

They should actually be in a class, but are taught at home - or not. Around 60 children are left at home by their parents, even though they do not meet the requirements for home schooling - a "remnant" from the coronavirus era, when up to 1427 children were taught at home.