Fears some older students may have become disaffected as attendance is at 89% after reopening
More than one in 10 secondary school pupils have been absent since schools and colleges in England fully reopened this month, and school leaders fear that a small core of older students have become disaffected and unwilling to return to the classroom.
Schools have been open to all pupils for three weeks, and the numbers attending state schools nationally are the highest since the pandemic hit, but around 150,000 secondary school students have been absent each day, over and above those out of school for Covid-related reasons.
