But school attendance was already plummeting well before the pandemic - and it’s a crisis educators are only just facing up to. By 2019 regular attendance was in freefall - in every decile, at every year level, across gender and across ethnicity. (A second feature story in this series, published on Sunday, examines the impact of the pandemic on school attendance in depth.) “It is trying to stay away from the thing that causes you pain.”Chris McKeen/Stuff Moana Moana is an attendance officer in Manurewa. Moana Moana says while most parents try, there are some who are so caught up in their own problems that they can’t or won’t.

Source: Stuff November 27, 2020 16:03 UTC