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Tim Dower: Is our truancy rate really as bad as the headline might make you think?

Published: June 9, 2022, 10:28 p.m.

b"The headline says only 60 percent of children are going to school regularly, or put it another way, 40 percent of children aren't going to school regularly.\\nThat sounds pretty bad, until you get down to the actual definition of 'going to school..."