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The Ghost Students: When Teens Slip Through the Cracks of Attendance | The World Room
In this episode of The World Room, host Tori Hume explores the growing crisis of 'ghost students' in England—teenagers who remain officially enrolled in school but miss at least half their classes. This phenomenon affects approximately forty-two thousand sixteen and seventeen-year-olds who exist in a bureaucratic gray area: they are counted as present on paper, yet physically absent from the classroom. The episode dissects how this structural failure creates a false sense of security for policymakers while leaving vulnerable young people without support, safety nets, or visibility.
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