The government is to launch a
crackdown on secondary-school dropouts and the parents who let
their children leave school early after an alleged gang rape by
youths in the crime- and drug-ridden town of Caivano near Naples
where the local Camorra mafia uses school dropouts on its drug
pushing operations, sources said Tuesday.
More penalties ate in the pipeline for parents who do not send
their children to school for the entire educational cycle, which
is mandatory from the age of six to 16.
It is one of the measures of the package that the government is
developing after the alleged gang rape of girls aged 10 and 12
in Caivano and with which it intends to combat educational
poverty and juvenile crime, the sources said.
The intervention has been expected since last week's visit of
Premier Giorgia Meloni to Caivano, when she vowed action on
crime and school drop-out rates saying "the sanctions for those
families who decide not to send their children to school are not
enough".
Meloni announced the strengthening of the rules to combat early
school leaving.
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