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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Michael Goodier and Sally Weale

More than 300,000 pupils estimated absent after England World Cup win

England manager Thomas Tuchel had urged parents to ‘write an excuse for school and let [your children] watch’.
England manager Thomas Tuchel had urged parents to ‘write an excuse for school and let [your children] watch’. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

About 332,000 fewer children were in school on Monday morning than a week earlier, according to initial figures, as attendance fell after England’s 3-2 World Cup win over Mexico.

School registers were down more than three percentage points on last week, after England manager Thomas Tuchel advised parents to “write an excuse for school and let them watch”.

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