Non-attendance a symptom of wider problem [Independent.ie]
- Published: 31 May 2010
SUSPENSIONS and non-attendance at school are symptoms of wider problems in school and society.
All too often they result in early school-leaving, which ends up costing the individual and society more in the long run.
Early school-leavers were the subject of a significant but little-noticed report published last week by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Science.
One in six students drops out before the Leaving and, as Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames, rapporteur for the group that produced the report, noted, "these are the forgotten kids".
"They do not show up in the yearly education statistics for sitting the Leaving Cert or entering college. Sadly, for many of them, the only time they feature in state data is in a negative sense, through statistics for unemployment, the courts or drug abuse."
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