- Only 47% of students came to school regularly in term 2 this year. an improvement on the same term last year, but one of the worst figures on record.
- 12.5% of students were chronically absent in term 2, meaning they had attended 70% of less of their classes.
- The figures were a slump from term 1 this year when 59.5% of pupils reached the regular attendance benchmark of attending more than 90% of their classes.
- In term 2 this year only a third of Māori and Pacific students attended school regularly, compared to half of pākehā students and 59% of Asian students.
- The Tai Tokerau region had the lowest percentage of students attending regularly (32.8%),” the report said.
- Unjustified absences reached 6.1% of class time, the highest term 2 figure on record.
The first thing the new minister can do towards this is make the submission of attendance by schools compulsory and require each school to publish their Wednesday to Wednesday – every Friday on their web-site. Make is a local community problem to see school quality and parental involvement/responsibility increase.
Alwyn Poole, a well-known figure in the New Zealand education system, he founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. This article was published HERE
4 comments:
The root cause of the problem still has to be fixed. Why are so many students not bothering to attend?
Based on the feedback I get from my daughter in Year 12 it is that many school days have little or no real learning incorporated into them. She is far more productive working at home on assignments and she keeps away from all the woke waffle.
The swing to teaching ways of learning and absorbing cultural crap, but very little practical knowledge, seems to be a real turn-off for many kids, and good on them.
Sort out the curriculum, the teachers focus on learning, and knock back all the compulsory Maori rituals and that should help get attendances back up again.
Kids aren't stupid...by and large. If there's little in it for them they'll find other ways to fill their time.
The election is the result of a clear rejection of maori twaddle in general It should be hugely reduced in schools as everywhere else.
Maori culture in 1840 was pretty basic so what makes any educator-in-charge-of-curriculum think kids will be engaging with a daily dose of it? Why do we need to pretend we are Maori with compulsory immersion at school?
I hope the new government rips into the education problems and sorts them out pronto. Jacinda and her useless henchmen have really dragged everything down and it needs fixing now.
MC
I agree with DeeM kids are not stupid and they thy realise and sense that the drivel schools dish out is not real learning and it will not help them in their futures.
This absenteeism should be seen for what it is- a complete failure in all respects. of progressivist education which believes schools are a vehicle for promoting social engineering not actually educating children in the usual understanding of the word.
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