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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

Very confusing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's definitely a very poor way to present the data.