Due to lack of food and transportation, school absenteeism in the country reaches 50%: Organization With the School
The non-profit organization Con la Escuela, which works with 79 institutions in the country, recently concluded through a survey that school absenteeism reaches 50% and that more than 90% of students walk to receive classes. .
The organization's coordinator, Óscar Iván Rose, reported that the study has given them significant failures in terms of absenteeism of both students and teachers.

Of the 79 schools in various states with which they work nationally, 21 had an attendance rate qualified as good, but of the rest, some 27 are considered serious.
Of that amount, at the rate of non-attendance that they are going, between 20 and 50% could not attend throughout the year, he assured.
Rose indicated that the study also investigates the reason for school absences and teachers maintain as one of the causes that "their students do not receive a student ticket", which results in their frequent absences. Read More…