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Truancy crisis : More than 60,000 students chronically absent from school
6 May, 2021 12:08 AM
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More than 60,000 students - or 8.8 per cent - are missing at least three days of school every fortnight. Photo / Michael Craig
More than 60,000 students - or 8.8 per cent - are missing at least three days of school every fortnight. Photo / Michael Craig
Derek Cheng is deputy political editor for the New Zealand Heraldderek.cheng@nzme.co.nz
Almost 9 per cent of school kids are chronically absent from school, meaning they re missing at least three learning days a fortnight.
And almost 40 per cent are not going to school regularly, as the Herald reported this morning.
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