The attendance data they hid until after the election

The Term 2 attendance data finally came out, and as Alwyn Poole pointed out, it is a shocker.

The number of students who are attending less than 70% of the time is at almost 100,000 – 97,016. This compares to 37,904 in Term 2 of 2017. That’s an additional 60,000 kids basically not attending school. Under 70% attendance means they were absent for at least three weeks of the term.

The number of Māori students attending less than 70% has gone from 16,393 to 41,091. How the hell can you close the gaps between Māori and non-Māori when that is happening.

Less than one in three Māori and Pacific students are attending school at least 90% of the time. What a terrible legacy left for the incoming Government to inherit.