PHOTO: Trauma at home is keeping kids out of class.
Non-attendance is one of the biggest problems facing our schools and experts say the reasons go way beyond casual “wagging” and traditional truancy issues.
Parenting and mental health groups have told a federal Senate Inquiry into school refusal that psychological and emotional problems often underlie the problem.
The viewpoints come as experts struggle to understand why school refusal rates are rising nationally and the Western Plains App revealed nearly all schools across region had significant falls in student attendance in 2022…