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Text messaging helps schools beat truancy
Text messaging is helping schools improve attendance rates by almost 40% as truants find they are no match for the latest technology designed to catch them dodging lessons, reports icWales. "Two schools in South Wales have become the latest to use mobile phones in the fight to beat truancy, a system to help keep pupils in school and enabled staff to contact parents more quickly when youngsters have been missing. More than 100 UK schools are now using the "Informer for Schools" technology, which at the touch of a button sends text and voice messages and e-mails out en masse to the parents of absent pupils". Related articles on similar programs set up in other countries: -- SMS text plan to combat truancy - Parents of absent South Australian students could receive SMS text messages informing them of their child's absence under a $1 million package to reduce truancy -- In the UK, Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College set up a system to bring down unattendence by texting parents, asking whether there is a good reason for their child not being in class. cf Schools text students, parents -- Two Irish schools are conducting a text experience as a disuasive way for skipping class. cf Parents alerted by SMS when children skip school -- A government endorsed experience to lower absentee rates of students has been implemented since last November in 400 Lycées throughout France. cf Parents receive a text message from The Lycée |
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