Poster: A snowHead
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I'm not sure if it is that.
I've never known as many as 25% of a class to be out - it's been 1 or 2 kids (this before the rules changed).
When I was a school governor of a inner London primary we had an issue with kids being taken out for months to visit relatives in Pakistan etc. The Head tried to get parents to go in the summer (!) but often they preferred to go in the winter when the weather was more pleasant...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Our school's attendance target is 96.7% and while parents are informed of their children's attendance records every half term, 'special measures' for any child start when attendance drops below 90%.
In practice we had 2 children out of 150 that met this criteria this year, we are a small rural village school, though with attendance from a local town as well. Those 2 fell into the 'truancy' type category rather than too many holidays.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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vjmehra wrote: |
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I don't think it's realistic to consider the situation of each individual child and even if it were how you stop teachers making arbitrary decsions e.g. skiing good, beach bad; museum good, theme park bad.
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It used to work fine though...the problem is now that because of (presumably) some parents/families/children abusing the system by repeatedly not turning up it has ruined it for everyone else. |
Not sure I believe that. I believe it was more a Government agenda. Was it a rampant problem? its anecdotal that it was and so too is the impact that it has.
To me is more a push by schools to reduce absences since this is a KPI that they are judged.
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Not sure I believe that. I believe it was more a Government agenda. Was it a rampant problem? its anecdotal that it was and so too is the impact that it has.
To me is more a push by schools to reduce absences since this is a KPI that they are judged.
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Tbh you are probably right in reality, I doubt it was ever that big a problem and I would also wager that those that have no real desire to be in school probably wouldn't be regardless of any government ruling!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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FrediKanoute wrote: |
vjmehra wrote: |
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I don't think it's realistic to consider the situation of each individual child and even if it were how you stop teachers making arbitrary decsions e.g. skiing good, beach bad; museum good, theme park bad.
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It used to work fine though...the problem is now that because of (presumably) some parents/families/children abusing the system by repeatedly not turning up it has ruined it for everyone else. |
Not sure I believe that. I believe it was more a Government agenda. Was it a rampant problem? its anecdotal that it was and so too is the impact that it has.
To me is more a push by schools to reduce absences since this is a KPI that they are judged. |
Agree 100% schools skip actual learning very early on and focus entirely on exam based revision, more a memory test than an actual understanding of the subject
Our schools even try to get students around a C or D grade at A / AS Level to drop the subject, heavily based on the fact it looks bad for their results
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FrediKanoute wrote: |
vjmehra wrote: |
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I don't think it's realistic to consider the situation of each individual child and even if it were how you stop teachers making arbitrary decsions e.g. skiing good, beach bad; museum good, theme park bad.
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It used to work fine though...the problem is now that because of (presumably) some parents/families/children abusing the system by repeatedly not turning up it has ruined it for everyone else. |
Not sure I believe that. I believe it was more a Government agenda. Was it a rampant problem? its anecdotal that it was and so too is the impact that it has.
To me is more a push by schools to reduce absences since this is a KPI that they are judged. |
No, really? Government interference to push an agenda, marked by over-egregious target hitting? Surely ever not!
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