A quarter of primary school children in Scotland are persistently absent from school. Four out of ten secondary school students fail to turn up regularly for classes.
by ewankenobi
A quarter of primary school children in Scotland are persistently absent from school. Four out of ten secondary school students fail to turn up regularly for classes.
by ewankenobi
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Hope it’s ok to post the article with the sub-headline rather than the headline, but thought it was a shocking stat that deserved attention drawn to it.
A couple of other things that stood out from the article. The education secretary said it was an issue for Scotland’s chief inspector. Not only does this seem like passing the back, schools can go years without an inspection, it doesn’t seem like school inspections can really be the solution to this problem.
Also this bit stood out to me:
“In another masterstroke, the education secretary has just reneged on the SNP’s 2021 promise to provide every pupil in Scotland with a laptop or other digital device.
She blamed the UK government for her decision, which is fantastical even for her, as education is fully devolved.”
When this was originally announced I always thought it was a cynical way to bribe people into voting for them that was never feasibly going to happen. Not surprised to be proven correct on that front.
Wait, I want to know more about the kids missing school but this article stops talking about it and starts ranting on about independence.
I can only assume poverty and troubled homes is the reason kids would truant, especially primary school kids.
This is such a shitty article.
Didn’t give any definition of how many days constitutes an absence. Is it illness, is it poverty, is it unstable childhood. Is it something else? Who knows. Not even a number of days lost, let alone a percentage. We don’t even know if it’s getting bigger or smaller, or how COVID has altered the game.
Did chat gpt write this nonsense? It’s definitely not quality journalism.
A big Government did it and ran away,