"He’s blaming the boards and principals and schools for the problem we have, yet he’s the one that says, ‘Listen we are going to cut lunches’. How the hell is that going to get people into school? He says, ‘We are going to cut back the public transport subsidies’. How the hell is that going to get people into schools?
“I got beaten with bed legs and buggered with broomsticks at my elite private school and I’m perfect, so the problem with public school truancy is there’s not enough cruelty”