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This is extremely interesting to me 09:53 - Jan 7 with 2432 views

School absences: Boost sport to get pupils back in class - report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-67893387

The real headline is the one they didn’t use - 1 in 5 children are persistently absent from school, meaning they kiss one day a fortnight at least.
Obsessed as I am with the short term future of this country o can’t decide if this is a bad thing or maybe a good one? Are these kids being home schooled, working with their family, learning a trade? Or are they instead dossing about. I see plenty of school age children in Greggs and Costa during school hours.
Any insight from TWTDers who have experienced this?

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This is extremely interesting to me on 10:04 - Jan 8 with 309 views

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I have no facts to back this up but I suspect Covid and school closures (to most kids) during it is the cause of alot of this. It taught kids that school wasn't compulsory after all - an important rule lost.

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This is extremely interesting to me on 10:05 - Jan 8 with 301 views

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This is extremely interesting to me on 10:01 - Jan 8 by lowhouseblue

definitely there will be cases just as you describe where mental health difficulties make school attendance impossible. but that is very much a minority of cases and it doesn't explain the current national 20% of absences. in most cases school is the essential place for kids to be. that's true even amongst autistic kids - though clearly not where the issues make school impossible. alas, the national 20% figure doesn't come from parents who are striving to give their kids an education.

That's a much more constructive way of saying it than my piss poor effort yesterday!

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This is extremely interesting to me on 07:37 - Jan 11 with 181 views

chicoazul

Friends thank you for all your insight into this. I find this topic very interesting and I’m all of a tizz about what it means for all our futures when nearly 25% of kids simply aren’t going to school.

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