The government has announced plans for a traffic light system with "clear obligations" for students about attending school.

Seymour pointed to New Zealand’s attendance rates having fallen from 69.5 percent in term 2015, to 39.9 percent in term two 2022.

That’s actually quite a shocking statistic, there must be a large number of kids simply never attending school at all to have an average that low.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nzOP
    7·
    5 months ago

    Right, so it’s not 40% attendance, it’s 40% failed to meet 90% attendance.

    Very confusing.

    • Xcf456@lemmy.nz
      4·
      5 months ago

      Yeah exactly. I think it gets interpreted, and unfortunately misrepresented by some, as a rate of long-term truancy when it’s actually that, plus a whole bunch of other things, many of which are perfectly reasonable.