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

Primary school principals believe anxiety around attending school, school reluctance, and school refusal is on the rise in children post-pandemic. File picture

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.