Truancy - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:06:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Truancy - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Principals worried about 'families gone missing' as truancy numbers increase https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/10/13/schoiol-principals-truancy/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:52:40 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=152966 The Attendance Service has investigated 16,771 new cases of serious truancy in the first half of this year. During the same period it resolved 12,726 cases - nearly half of them, because the child in question was found to be already enrolled in another school. The new cases included 9838 students who were removed from Read more

Principals worried about ‘families gone missing' as truancy numbers increase... Read more]]> The Attendance Service has investigated 16,771 new cases of serious truancy in the first half of this year.

During the same period it resolved 12,726 cases - nearly half of them, because the child in question was found to be already enrolled in another school.

The new cases included 9838 students who were removed from their school's roll and classed as "non-enrolled" after being absent for about 20 days.

The remaining 6933 cases were "unjustified absence", essentially persistent truants.

The number of new non-enrolled cases opened in the first half of 2022 was close to the 10,727 cases opened in all of 2021. Read more

Principals worried about ‘families gone missing' as truancy numbers increase]]> 152966 Worst in 44 years: Truancy crisis inflamed by increasing poverty, educators say https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/06/27/truancy-poverty/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:54:20 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=148427 Truancy is increasing. The rising cost of living is a major barrier keeping children from getting past school doors, says an Auckland principal. "We're going to families whose kids aren't attending, and asking: ‘What can we do to help your son or daughter to get back to school?'" said Wendy Esera, principal at Henderson Intermediate. Read more

Worst in 44 years: Truancy crisis inflamed by increasing poverty, educators say... Read more]]> Truancy is increasing. The rising cost of living is a major barrier keeping children from getting past school doors, says an Auckland principal.

"We're going to families whose kids aren't attending, and asking: ‘What can we do to help your son or daughter to get back to school?'" said Wendy Esera, principal at Henderson Intermediate.

"And parents are saying, ‘Look, I haven't got a uniform for them'."

Esera has been in the education sector for over 44 years, and says student poverty is the worst she's seen. Read more

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