as an adult who was truant *extremely frequently* in K12 this is completely horrifying and she LAUGHED as she said it https://twitter.com/WillisJermane/status/1089983025713213440 …
For your direct question: I'm not horrified by the video, her idea was insensitive of many people's plight, but she's actually misquoted and didn't say "use the stick". She referred to having a stick, but her language wasn't quite as insensitive as implied.
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I grew up in a very poor neighborhood, with a lot of crime, and truancy, and they definitely were related, and I've heard the idea she expressed dozens of times from working class residents of those same areas. At times it even works, as she pointed out, even if it is insensitive
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