Statewide Day time passes to tackle truancy
Jan 24th 2004, 11:33 pm
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Statewide Day time passes to tackle truancy
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Schools to introduce security ID cards for kids
By Alex Mitchell, State Political Editor
January 25, 2004
The Sun-Herald
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Compulsory leave passes will be introduced at high schools from the start of the school year this week in a dramatic move to crack down on truancy, which is running at 7700 a day.
The laminated security passes will be issued to students who need time out from school for a doctor's appointment, to attend a TAFE course or some other legitimate reason for their absence.
Students caught without leave passes in shopping centres or at the beach will be returned to school and reported for further disciplinary action.
"This is a shot across the bows of truants," acting Premier and Education Minister Andrew Refshauge said yesterday.
"Don't go to the beach, go to school. It's the safest place for our children to be."
Of the 770,000 students in NSW state high schools, about 1 per cent, or 7700, are absent without a legitimate reason on any given day. Another 5 per cent, or 38,500, are not at school because they are sick, at family funerals, or caught in floods, bushfires or for some other reasonable excuse.
Schools to introduce security ID cards for kids
By Alex Mitchell, State Political Editor
January 25, 2004
The Sun-Herald
Print this article
Email to a friend
Compulsory leave passes will be introduced at high schools from the start of the school year this week in a dramatic move to crack down on truancy, which is running at 7700 a day.
The laminated security passes will be issued to students who need time out from school for a doctor's appointment, to attend a TAFE course or some other legitimate reason for their absence.
Students caught without leave passes in shopping centres or at the beach will be returned to school and reported for further disciplinary action.
"This is a shot across the bows of truants," acting Premier and Education Minister Andrew Refshauge said yesterday.
"Don't go to the beach, go to school. It's the safest place for our children to be."
Of the 770,000 students in NSW state high schools, about 1 per cent, or 7700, are absent without a legitimate reason on any given day. Another 5 per cent, or 38,500, are not at school because they are sick, at family funerals, or caught in floods, bushfires or for some other reasonable excuse.
