A new Education Review Office report shows attitudes toward school attendance have improved significantly since 2022, with more parents and students valuing regular attendance, but truancy remains fuelled by family holidays and short absences.
The report, Back to Class: How are attitudes to attendance changing?, found 73% of students now see daily attendance as important, while parents are less comfortable with extended absences but increasingly tolerant of shorter ones.
Students who feel connected to school are five times more likely to attend regularly, with clear expectations, support, and rewards proving most effective. However, punishing truants and frequent school closures were found to harm attendance rates, and Māori students’ attitudes have not improved. Despite progress, regular attendance sits at 58%, still below pre-2019 levels.
Frequent school closures – like teacher only days study leave and school holidays. Bring back the old days where there were only 2 school holidays, May and august and no teacher only days. Teachers get so much time off it’s ridiculous. Also have a uniform set national curriculum and pass or fail exams. Focus on maths English and financial literacy.
No child left behind
Drags and holds all students down to that level and impedes their progress and development
Standards are being undermined and dropping everywhere
How do You destroy a country?
Undermine and lessen its vocabulary
Communications the first casualty in any war
Quickly followed by the truth
ERO, ..E R O, what’ that standing for again? help me out here:
Engineered to Render Obedience?
Erasure of Resistance & Originality?
Education as Ritualized Order?
Enculturation, Routine, Oppression?
Nicely said. All of the above sound feasible to me.
Homeschooling solves ALL of these problems- and you can holiday whenever you want!
It also allows greater liberties in other areas, and helps to protect privacy and prevents governmental intrusions that coincide with the the targeting of children for human trafficking via CYFS due to malicious rumours and gossip from ‘school authorities’ when they don’t like the parents ot the child!!!
Apathetic teaching, a lack of resources, politicised education, small wonder kids are no engaged and parents feel indifferent. We pulled out of the public system for this reason.