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NGO warns: 12,000 students miss every fourth school day - The Copenhagen Post

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An analysis by Børns Vilkår shows that school absenteeism is rising, with 12,030 students missing at least 50 days in the 2024/2025 school year. This accounts for 2.4% of all pupils—nearly double the figure from five years ago. Missing a quarter of the school year signals distress, yet schools failed to report 61% of these […]
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Signs of unhappiness12,030 students were absent for at least 50 days in the 2024/2025 school year. This corresponds to approximately 2.4 percent of all students. This is almost twice as many as in 2019/2020, when the number was 6,889. With at least 50 days of absence, students thus missed at least one in four of the total 200 school days in a year. According to Børns Vilkår, prolonged absence is an expression that the child is unhappiness and ne…

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Last school year, more than 12,000 children had at least 50 days of absence, writes Børns Vilkår in a press release. This corresponds to every fourth school day that children miss. The proportion of children who have very high school absences has almost doubled in five years. Absences are particularly high in some municipalities in Region Zealand and the Capital Region, and according to Børns Vilkår, this is alarming. TV 2 Kosmopol has previousl…

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Long-term absence from school is an expression of dissatisfaction and should trigger notification to the municipality, according to Børns Vilkår.

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Kristeligt Dagblad broke the news on Thursday, May 7, 2026.
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