School control backed
PA Auckland Truancy would be curbed if family benefits were distributed by schools, says an Auckland principal. Mr Everett Perry, who will retire this year as head of Tamaki College, in Glen Innes, said truancy was the biggest problem he and his staff faced. He supports the stand taken by the attendance officer for the Auckland Education Board, Mr Jim Taia, who says the family benefit should not be paid to parents of persistent truants. “If the benefits for all my students had to come across my desk we would have few attendance problems,” Mr Perry said. He believes parents would make a greater effort to see that their children went to school if the benefit could be withheld from those who did not.
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Press, 23 December 1986, Page 8
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