المملكة: 74% of students were not absent or absent less than 3 times in a year

School discipline

According to the detailed report issued by the commission, the age group from 8 to 14 years has recorded a high commitment rate, as 73% of students were absolutely absent or their absences did not exceed three times, and the age group from 15 to 19 years old showed a similar commitment rate of 74.1%.
The data indicated that 95.3% of the first category students, and 94.7% of the second category students did not reach the level of chronic absence..
These figures confirm that the majority of public education students maintain their school discipline significantly, in an indication of the role of the family and the school in instilling the value of the commitment to children from the early academic stages, and the results of the survey reflect the level of joint awareness between parents and students, which refutes the general impressions that describe students as a weak school attendance, and provides a real image based on reliable data.

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