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Thursday, August 28, 2025

David Farrar: More progress on school attendance

The latest Term 2 attendance data is out. Term 2 can be the most useful as that can be tracked back to 2011. The other terms only track back to 2019.
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So in the last three years the regular attendance rate has gone up 18 percentage points with all students and 17 percentage points with Māori students. In terms of percentage growth that is a 47% increase in the regular attendance rate for all students and a 62% increase for Maori students.

David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shocking. Even at our best only 70 percent regularly attend.
These are third world figures. We should be ashamed as a nation.
No wonder with our dim-witted children and uneducated masses are easily led and exploited by the establishment.
We have regressed so far, I don't know whether our decline will ever be stemmed in what remains of the lives of anyone living today. We are indeed a train wreck in slow motion. A tragedy unwinding across generations.

Robert Bird said...

I had to provide a death certificate to get a day off from school with my parents. Double pneumonia; go to school.