The Standing Committee on Education and Research is examining a private member's bill to revise attendance rules in upper secondary school. The committee calls on the government to ensure that visits to school health services are not counted against absence limits, and puts forward several minority proposals regarding driving tests, students with chronic illness, and removal of absence limits altogether.
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The Storting calls on the government to ensure that visits to school health services are not counted against absence limits.
The Storting calls on the government to treat driving tests and mandatory driving instruction as valid reasons for absence in upper secondary school.
The Storting calls on the government to treat driving tests and mandatory driving instruction for categories B, S, T, AM and A1 equally in the absence rules set out in the curriculum regulations.
The Storting calls on the government to review absence limits for students with chronic or serious illness and make necessary changes to ensure their needs are met and to facilitate their completion of schooling.
The Storting calls on the government to remove absence limits in upper secondary school.