http://www.stuff.co.nz/4831079a11.html Minister orders action on truants By LANE NICHOLS – The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 28 January 2009 The Government is demanding urgent action on truancy amid revelations that officials have little or no idea how many thousands of children cut class each day. Education Minister Anne Tolley is instructing…
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Parents convicted over son’s truancy
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4777135a11.html Parents convicted over son’s truancy By NICOLA BRENNAN – Waikato Times | Saturday, 29 November 2008 The parents of a Morrinsville College student have been prosecuted and convicted over their son’s truancy. Kathleen Kereopa and Chris Hemara, charged under the Education Act, pleaded guilty when they appeared in the…
Parents to get truancy reminders
ttp://www.stuff.co.nz/nelsonmail/4666609a6007.html Parents to get truancy reminders By MARCUS STICKLEY – Nelson | Monday, 25 August 2008 Parents could soon start being prosecuted for taking their children out of school for a holiday, a Nelson principal says. Primary schools have been reinforcing attendance rules with parents after receiving reminders from the…
Policeman takes girl to school each day
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4642055a11.html Policeman takes girl to school each day By JOHN HARTEVELT – The Press | Monday, 04 August 2008 A Christchurch mother has been prosecuted over her daughter’s truancy in the first Canterbury case before the courts under a new scheme designed to cut wagging. The mother of the 14-year-old…
Read It and Weep
The many negative aspects of public schooling are well reported in the daily papers. Schools were also becoming seriously affected by social problems becoming in the worst cases mere baby-sitting services. Do you want your children to go to a school where social problems rule the programmes? –Massey University vice-chancellor…