Debate: mother jailed for kids truancy - Good or bad?

[PollyannaFlower46]

They do this is some states down south too, I saw something about it on the news once. I think it's a good idea just because these kids don't learn from warnings, and obviously the mother's threats and or punishments were uneffective as well. Looking at the end result so far, it appears as if the children are going to school so the punishment was effective. Also, you have to think that they are doing this to try to scare more truants into going to school...kinda like what they were hoping to do with the Rockefeller drug laws. I do feel bad for the mother though, I know when I was in high school and cutting, it wasn't my mother's fault at all.