Data released today for Term 3 2023 show that despite the previous government’s hollow promises of bold actions, New Zealand school attendance rates remain abysmal.
Education Minister Erica Stanford says it is incredibly disappointing to see only 45.9 per cent of children are attending school regularly.
“Despite spending tens of millions of dollars, the previous Government has delivered the second worst attendance figures since 2011.
“A report by the Education Review Office showed 41 per cent of parents are comfortable with their child missing a week or more of school a term. This equates to missing a year of schooling by the time they are 16.
“We need a change of direction to restore the habit of attending school regularly.
“Associate Education Minister David Seymour and I have set a clear expectation with officials that it is time for a change in approach. We know it will take time to increase attendance rates but this government expects kids to be in school. We know a good education ensures our young people have the skills and knowledge to set them up for success.
“We will continue to ensure the right supports are in place to help families get their children to school but parents’ attitudes count. This government will be sending a message that there is a moral and legal obligation for their children to be in school.
“Attendance and achievement go hand in hand. We have a clear plan to lift achievement so that young people experience success in the classroom and feel confident in their abilities.”
“As a nation, we can’t accept a level of mediocrity where less than half of students are regularly attending school. To succeed in education, you have to show up,” says Minister Seymour.
“Almost every aspect of someone’s adult life will be defined by the education they receive as a child. For better social outcomes, kids need to be in the classroom and learning the basics.
“ACT’s coalition agreement with National commits to addressing truancy by prioritising reporting and enforcement action to reduce truancy, including centrally collecting and publishing attendance data.”
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That’s because education like everything else run by so called government in New Zealand is a JOKE. Rubbish in rubbish out.
Make the product better and people will come back.
Quality education based around English composition and literature, mathematics, science, history and civics. Maybe look at introducing trade-based courses and apprenticeships to those who want, accounting and business etc, offer some practical training that might lead to an actual career path someday. Fire the clown-haired they-thems and the washed up communist hippies peddling insanity instead of education.
More learning and less woke activism please.
Kids are leaving school dumber than when they went in, probably means we’re doing it wrong 🤷🏼♂️
Well, when one looks at the MoE-approved bullying being accomplished under the auspices of ‘Darwinism’, and the fact that many ‘teachers’ are self-centered and think they THEY are important only unto themselves, then why wouldn’t you want to stay home of find somewhere else to go for the day other than school?
Many of these students are now pursuing interests outside of the school-to-prison pipeline online with either the Correspondence School, Khan Academy, or have gathered up sources of information on subjects that interest them and that they can do well at.
On the other hand, the NCEA scores have been downgraded and tampered with in the very recent past by the NZQA, and I STILL ASSERT THAT CERTAIN CHILDREN FROM CERTAIN ‘NOT IN THE KNOW’ FAMILIES WERE TARGETED IN THAT CASE SO AS NOT TO GET AHEAD IN LIFE, AND WERE TARGETED FOR BEING HELD BACK BY A THIRD PARTY ENTERING A LOW SCORE ON THE NZQA, prohibiting many únenlightened” and ‘profane’ from entering Uni even though they had the highest scores!
Our Zionist-controlled PM, just like the previous National Party Zionist PM, is still giving the orders…and NOTHING is going to change in education except for those attending private schools where the Élite’ send their little reptilian hatchling offspring, who are then pretty much guaranteed Uni entries based on padded scoring.
It’s already happening in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada.
I would be homeschooling my kids if I had my time again. Stop them being brainwashed with wokery.
Who wants to go to school and have all that trans Sh1t shoved in your face? Also why are the kids doing THREE HOURS of maths science and English? What the HELL ate they doing at school if they aren’t learning the basics? Unreal.
No child left behind
It take a Kl@us Schw@b Global Village to…RUIN A CHILD!! (with the Hellary Klinton Witches Coven intervening…!)
Many kids realise the fact that they will only have ‘gigs’ instead of a job, or a career.
They know that there are not enough jobs, and the good work goes to the ‘Children of the Hidden Hand’…
We home-schooled our children, and gave them alternatives other than the ‘Bullied Pipeline from School to Prison’ methodology.
We are seeing more and more Hikikomori staying in their rooms, away from the bullying of athletics, competitive humans that behave like animals, and no opportunities being offered despite the fact that they may have scored high on the NCEA.
IF they manage to do Uni, it would probably be with a student loan that entraps them into usuary for half of their lives, and still…not have a living-wage job offer anywhere.