Sideswiped: Sandy Bits
Absent from school? Dat's the sound of the police, Location, Location, Location misfires, CGT is not a type of scan, writer's cookbook and a beautiful short about Hiroshima.
How low will she go to attract paid subscribers? (This is about it I reckon).
Just another brick in the wall
Will Dave Seymour’s new attendance rules impact the term-time-overseas-jaunts-of-the-wealthy or just everyone else struggling to get their kids to class?
The rich can get away with murder, why not truancy?
I rang my 13-year-old’s school to find out how many days he was marked absent this term. It was 12 and he’s a healthy year 9 kid. He got 3 days off because he passed his 3 NCEA literacy exams (humble brag), while the other kids gave it another crack, but still...
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