Parents urged to rethink term-time holidays as primary school absences hit record high

There are no official figure yet but primary school principals believe anxiety around attending school, school reluctance, and school refusal is on the rise in children post-pandemic.

“What we are seeing is tears, stresses, belly aches, headaches, things like that, from all ages,” one principal who spoke to the Irish Examiner said.

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