57,000 miss school each day - report [IrishTimes]
- Published: 01 June 2010
OVER 57,000 students miss school each day, according to a new report published yesterday.
The figures are contained in a National Educational Welfare Board’s (NEWB) report which calculates attendance from the academic years 2006/07 to 2007/08.
It shows that approximately 31,500 of truants are primary students while 26,000 are post-primary students.
This equates to a loss of 12 school days per student per year in primary school and 13 days in post-primary school.
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