AS TEACHERS today struggle to cope with the endless workload, little do they realise that their crushing detachment may have resulted in a worrying spike in the number of absenteeism or truancy in schools.
Even though the Education Ministry’s (MOE) truancy statistics for Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, and Putrajaya, for the first six months of 2013 register a mere 726 cases, but The Starprobe’s investigations since January this year found otherwise.
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