10,000 Truants a Day ; Parents Blamed As Pupils Taken Out of School for Holidays Swell Absentee Rate
Daily Mail › December 13, 2007
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TEN thousand pupils miss school each day in Scotland because of truancy, exclusion or family holidays, shocking new figures show.
On any one day, an average of 5,600 are playing truant while another 3,600 are on holiday and 800 are at home or on the streets after being thrown out of lessons for bad behaviour.See the full content of this document
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10,000 Truants a Day ; Parents Blamed As Pupils Taken Out of School for Holidays Swell Absentee Rate
About 146,000 youngsters - one in five of the total - truanted at least once over the past year, up by 7,000 in only 12 months.
Ministers condemned parents who take advantage of cheaper pac...See the full content of this document
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