Originally Posted by
Asturias56
" I was shocked to read that during 2022, in Term 2, only 40% of school children regularly attended school."
having spent some time in '22 in Auckland it doesn't surprise me - they were still very much in lockdown mode as late as September with relatively few people out and about. About a year behind W Europe I'd say. The University campus was very sparely inhabited for example
Attendance remains low and there is no compulsion on parents to send kids to school, and for those kids to stay there, sadly. One thing that struck me particularly in NZ is the growth of the 'Anti-science' lobby, fuelled by the Anti-vaxx movement, and this conflates with the requirement for educational institutions to teach 'Maori science' and myth as fact and as an adjunct to evidence-based science.