I think the member will agree with me that when there is a law, there is a process involved. The law is there for all of us. As the public, we should complain to the courts of the country when we see a child not going to school. We can report that. It is for all of us to do so.
You know very well that we are doing lots of things in order to encourage and support kids to come to school. Sometimes teachers even go to the extent of picking them up at their homes. We would rather go for a soft, caring approach than one of policing.
We know that some kids come from extremely difficult environments. Others come from parentless homes. You do not send them to prison because they have no parent to bring them up. We look at different ways of ensuring that at the end of the day, they do go to school. Preferably, in an environment like school, where there would be education authorities, we would rather use soft methods which would not break the trust between us and our learners. If we send them to prison and they come back, there will be no relationship between us. We have a certain responsibility.
There is no such thing as the law not being implementable. Even as a member of the public, you can easily complain. Custodians of the law should deal with it. We are not the courts of the country. These matters need to be taken to the courts of the country through the correct process. You raise a complaint and there is someone who has jurisdiction over who gets imprisoned or not. I do not run courts and cannot be responsible for the implementation of a law.