I livelli di assenza scolastica “estremamente allarmanti” spingono il ministro Helen Mcentee ad annunciare misure per affrontare il problema
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hugely-alarming-levels-of-school-absences-prompts-minister-helen-mcentee-to-announce-measures-to-tackle-problem/a1614883470.html
di PoppedCork
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It comes as data showed that in the 2022–2023 school year, more than 110,000 primary and 65,000 post-primary pupils missed 20 or more school days.
Ms McEntee described this as a “hugely alarming” statistic from Tusla’s Annual Attendance Report (AAR), adding that it “warrants action”.
Was Norma turning a blind eye?
We were just discussing this in school last week. Poor attendance is now a societal problem, and schools can do little to fix it on their own. We were saying the department absolutely needs to step in. For LCA, students have to have 90% attendance to get all of their credits, something like that should be implemented across the board.
My friends wife is a teacher and she says that parents taking kids out of school to go on cheaper holidays is seriously hampering their development, but for some reason nobody is allowed to say it.
She said there are even degrees of how much of an effect it has on them, with taking them out at that start of the school year the worst time of all.
Says the children come back to school after being “sick” or “visiting a sick relative” or other excuse and spill the beans immediately the day they are back that it was a holiday they were on. Some of them even have granny who had died multiple times 😄
Anxiety in school going kids has become a major problem and until we have services to address that i can’t see it getting any better. I had a child that refused to go to school and it broke me. No help or support from authorities just blame. My child dropped out he just couldn’t deal with it. Eventually found a private psychologist who really helped and i got kid into Youthreach. Thank God as he has now just finished QQI and hopes to go uni this year. I can’t express the stress of him not going to school. He missed over 60 days and I received zero help or assistance from anyone. I personally think this is linked to the lack of access to cahms.
Schools were closed so long during COVId that children missing school just became more acceptable.
Judging by most folks my age, kids could spend a year learning to make coffee and quiche and still come out ahead.
They’re gonna learn far more in a few weeks in a foreign country than they are in the classroom anyway.
I was once the attendance coordinator for a post primary school. I was legally obliged to contact the NEWB (now TUSLA) when a student missed 20 days. First time I did it, the person on the phone sighed and told me to email them the names once a month for recording purposes but don’t bother ringing until the student missed 80+ days as they were so understaffed they had zero hope of looking at anyone below that. That was about 10 years ago, I can only imagine the issue has gotten even worse