Education: Why Bother?

If the kids are not going to bother, then why the hell should we?

The number of kids from state schools enrolling into university is dropping, the number of students quitting university is rising and the kids who are in school can't be arsed going.

The best of it is, in some cases they don't even have to try that hard to get an A*.

Truancy rates rise by 10% to highest level ever recorded

Record numbers of children played truant from school in the past year, as rates soared by 10 per cent.

About 55,000 pupils are skipping lessons each day as the official truancy rate - measured in terms of percentage of half-days off taken by pupils - rose by 0.07 per cent to 0.79 per cent.

The increase, a rise of 4,500 a day on the previous year, was the highest since records were first compiled a decade ago and comes despite ministers spending £885m on measures to improve behaviour and attendance at schools.

£885 million. That works out at a little over £16,000 for every lazy arsed little shit stain skipping school. Now if that isn't a shocking, complete waste of our money then I don't know what is.

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