Charter School Ideology

So Christchurch North College was actually set up by four state school principals who said we have students that our schools can't reach. They're not showing up at all. There needs to be something different for them. And I actually admire them for doing this because most of the state school sector just thinks charter schools are some sort of anti-Christ, but these guys embraced it. And now this school is engaging kids who were completely disengaged. So are there numbers below the target? Absolutely. But for a year where they started off with a very small number of students, and then each term uh they met, they added more students who had barely been attending uh at all. And so as the years gone on, uh at an individual level, uh they're getting more and more students to attend, but they're also adding uh new students who had who don't have a good history of attendance and improving them. So, you know, that this these numbers will be analyzed with that full context that it's their start-up year. And I actually think overall uh they're gonna end up looking pretty good in years to come once you acknowledge the the the foundation, the reason they exist and the way the stats have come together in their first year.