Some mother and father from Vigo face a 6,000-euro high quality for taking their daughters out of college and educating them on-line

File picture of the courts of Vigo. EUROPA PRESS

The mother and father withdrew the ladies from faculty and enrolled them in a US academy The occasions occurred in January 2022 and the minors have been finding out second and sixth grades The Prosecutor’s Office accuses them of committing a criminal offense of household abandonment and requests for them a monetary high quality

The training of some ladies at residence by telematic means shall be judged this Thursday within the Criminal Court number one of Vigo. Some mother and father will sit on the bench accused of a criminal offense of household abandonment for taking their daughters out of college and educating them on-line.

The ladies left the college in Vigo (Pontevedra) the place they have been enrolled in January 2022, with out prior discover, and commenced to obtain on-line courses from an academy in California (United States).

The occasions occurred when the minors, ages 8 and 13, have been within the second and sixth grades of main faculty.

Notices from the middle director

As indicated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in its indictment, it was the American faculty that contacted the Vigo middle to request the ladies’ recordsdata and, days later, the mother and father requested the withdrawal of their daughters from the college.

However, the director of the CEIP despatched them a doc indicating the inadmissibility of the withdrawal, since education is obligatory and the American academy isn’t a licensed middle.

Despite the truth that a number of conferences have been held between academics and oldsters, the place the necessity for the ladies to attend class was defined, the mother and father continued with out taking them to high school.

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