So, how many students are wagging school? Yesterday National Party leader Christopher Luxon told us 100,000 children were chronically truant.
This is incorrect.
The figure he was referring to is from term 1 this year when just over 100,000 children were chronically absent - but not necessarily truant.
Secondary Principals' Association president and principal of Papatoetoe High School Vaughan Couillault spoke to Corin Dann.
