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.
Right, so it’s not 40% attendance, it’s 40% failed to meet 90% attendance.
Very confusing.
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.
It’s definitely a very poor way to present the data.