OVER TEN THOUSAND TRUANCY REFERRALS BEFORE SSSD

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While teacher absenteeism is no longer a major issue at the nation's schools, students are the ones staying away from classes.  A parliamentary committee learnt today that there are over ten thousand reports of student truancy currently before the Student Support Services Division of the Ministry of Education.

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00:00Chronic student absenteeism plaguing the nation's schools has seen some

00:05improvement over the past year says the acting chief education officer in the

00:11same this year the number would have dropped to 3920 still pretty high but we

00:20would have seen a reduction mr. Ramerton says once a student is absent from

00:24school for two to three days without the submission of a medical record it is

00:29reported to the school support services division engage in one of the

00:35initiatives where they have meeting with parents to follow up with their

00:41absenteeism and to see what support system may be needed at the home level

00:48to in some way get these absenteeism at a lower level get students back out to

00:54school truancy reports sent by the school are referred to the ministry's

00:59disciplinary team within five days and intervention is due to take place within

01:0414 days but the number of truancy reports before the multidisciplinary

01:09team doesn't quite add up to the number quoted by mr. Ramerton as a matter of

01:15fact the reports before the team are more than double at ten thousand eight

01:20hundred and eighty and I ask you how many cases you have before you at this

01:25point in time sure so the data I have is the number of referrals received by

01:39district between the September 2022 to August 2023 we have three thousand nine

01:47hundred and ninety referred cases in the primary level and six thousand eight

01:54hundred and ninety cases at the secondary level the scourge of bullying

01:59also came up as the Joint Select Committee of Parliament conducted its

02:03inquiry into the underperformance at nation schools from 2022 to present and

02:09the numbers that would have been reported where suspensions would have

02:14been done based on investigations at the school level that would have been done

02:18and conducted the primary school the total is 77 in secondary it is 470 but

02:27it's on a decline

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