ROT for 8th March 2010

33,000 kids absent from school every day. Clearly this is the fault of schools and teachers. I know this because the government said so. School has to be more engaging for the 33 thousand – they said that too.

The government is spending another 32 million dollars on truancy and I bet my lunch money that 32 million will buy a lot of glossy brochures, one or two snappy phrases like ‘only a fool, skips school’ or ‘Tana said, get out of bed.’