SIR - A Bradford father was jailed for 12 weeks and his wife for eight weeks for allowing their four children to play truant from their regular schools, for the better part of seven months (T&A, April 22).
Taken together these children will have missed more than 500 days' schooling.
On Thursday, April 24, the National Union of Teachers called a one-day strike, closing nearly 8,000 schools and an estimated 30 per cent of all schoolchildren in England and Wales missed one day's lessons. This equates to thousands of school days lost.
If parents have to face jail for hundreds of lost school days, then shouldn't the officers and strike leaders of the NUT, be rounded up and also be sent to prison?
Their total crime against schoolchildren far supersedes that of the two Bradford parents.
I think we can safely wager that no action will be taken against the union members. The usual hypocrisy regarding union rules.
Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley
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