Young teenager, in first year of secondary school (we arent in the UK and they start secondary later here), thought things were going quite well, seemed to have friends and be coping generally ok with homework etc apart from a few forgotten bits. A few days ago he sheepishly admitted to having skipped computer class a few times, after talking he admitted to missing 5. I told him to fess up to the school and face the consequences. Got a call from the school to say he had also skipped another class for the last 5 weeks that has the same teacher as computers and we would be called in to discuss where to go from here but they would look at his attendence in all classes before the meeting. He has since admitted to skipping a maths class and a few geography ones too. The meeting with the school is next week but at home we have taken away his phone and the games console and we are discussing whether we give all the xmas presents bought for him. There could well be more consequences once we have spoken with the school and have the full picture - we feel we cant trust him now to tell us the full truth.
We'd like to get some idea of how other parents would tackle this. What consequences would you put in place?