Can online schools solve the post-Covid attendance crisis?
In total, 22.3 per cent of pupils missed more than one in 10 sessions in the last academic year, roughly double the proportion in 2018-19. Of disadvantaged pupils, nearly two in five are now classed as “persistently absent”. A Centre for Social Justice report this week concluded that Covid has well and truly shattered the online schools
Source: schoolsweek.co.uk