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Speaker 1: The ERRO, the Education Review Office, has given us some

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Speaker 1: good news this morning. School attendance back up to pre

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Speaker 1: COVID levels, sixty percent regularly showing up to class, which

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Speaker 1: is good. Eighty percent of kids think that school is

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Speaker 1: important for their future. Well, thank god. That's up to

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Speaker 1: Chris Abercrombie PPTA present with me this morning. Chris, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning. Well that's good news. Is this parents making

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Speaker 1: them go? I see that parents are less comfortable with

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Speaker 1: them having time off in the survey too.

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Speaker 2: It's been of everything, so it's sort of it's been

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Speaker 2: a team effort, has been schools sort of working really

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Speaker 2: hard to change attitude. It's been parents listening to what's

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Speaker 2: going on and making decisions. So there's been a real

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Speaker 2: team effort.

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Speaker 1: Do we say that this is David cmour and has

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Speaker 1: get tough and get the message out, maybe not get tough,

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Speaker 1: but get the message out there. Is that working?

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Speaker 2: I think definitely. Sort of having it as a focus

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Speaker 2: has helped. I mean school's have been working on this since,

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Speaker 2: you know, after COVID, but I mean having that extra

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Speaker 2: focus has definitely helped.

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Speaker 1: Do you think having the pun or the talk of

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Speaker 1: punishment helps too.

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Speaker 2: I think for certain groups, the sort of the legal

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Speaker 2: aspect of it definitely helps. But you know, I think

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Speaker 2: for those those hardcore truant students or families that that

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Speaker 2: sort of need their support, I don't think that's helping.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think so either. But hopefully the announcement

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Speaker 1: they made this week will do something about that. Hey,

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Speaker 1: how many days off have we got? Have kids got

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Speaker 1: for strikes and teacher ani days this year?

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Speaker 2: Do we know? Wells from secondary we've had one strike

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Speaker 2: and a number of roster and home days and for

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Speaker 2: teacher any days, I think there's for this year to

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Speaker 2: approve by the government and two available to schools.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so if you add up, I mean, if if

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Speaker 1: you take your kids out of school for a week,

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Speaker 1: you're adding the teacher ani days, you add in the strikes,

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Speaker 1: you're adding the holidays, things start to look a bit grim.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So it was clearing the report too that their holidays,

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Speaker 2: kids taking time in holiday holidays in school time. We're

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Speaker 2: still an issory for schools. So I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: everyone agrees it's really important to be at school and

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Speaker 2: focused on what we and focused on getting their teaching

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Speaker 2: and learning happening.

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Speaker 1: All right, brilliant, appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Chris.

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Speaker 1: Chris Abercrombie with us this morning from the PPT.

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