Enrolment, attendance, and the school system

What this chapter covers

• Your right to education
• Enrolment schemes
  Rules about enrolment schemes and home zones
• Attendance requirements
  When you have to be at school
• Vaccinations
  School immunisation register
• Truancy
  What can happen if you wag school
• Different types of schools
  State and state-integrated schools, private schools, kura kaupapa Māori and other types of school
• Donations and school fees
  Donation schemes and what schools can charge fees for
• The National Curriculum
  What’s taught in schools, and rules about sex education and religious education
• Learning support
  Your right to go to school regardless of your learning needs, and help that’s available