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Rural School’s Attendance Battle | Auckland News
Rangiora High School in North Canterbury is battling attendance woes, with up to 35 teachers out sick daily due to flu — making operations tough. While student absence remains a national crisis since Covid, the school is taking a personal, community-driven approach by hiring an internal attendance officer who understands students’ lives, including rural realities like farming schedules. With new government targets aiming for 80% of students to attend 90% of the time by 2030, and a looming qualification framework that could penalize partial attendance, the focus is shifting — but medical…
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