Absenteeism, bad behaviour compound poor school performance
The flatlining of school performance among Australian teenagers, with one in every two students not meeting even basic benchmarks in maths, is being compounded by growing rates of absenteeism and bad, sometimes violent, classroom behaviour and disengaged parents.
Mobile phones are also having a devastating impact on learning, with two in every five students reporting being distracted in class due to their own or someone else’s digital device, according to the 2022 results of the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment.
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