Of all the skills required to graduate high school, showing up on time ought to be the easiest. The current standard for Ontario students is that they attend at least 90 per cent of their assigned school days. Yet in 2024-25, nearly 60 per cent of Ontario’s high school students failed this basic requirement. Other provinces display similarly worrisome attendance figures. Canada is in the midst of a truancy epidemic.

To reverse the trend, Ontario........

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