Is school optional nowadays? Last year, 140,000 children were classed as ‘severely absent’ from the classroom, a rise of 134 per cent on the year before. Just over two million pupils – one in four children – are ‘persistently absent’, which means they miss more than 10 per cent of lessons.
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