As a young girl, Professor Nyokong says she went to school on some days and took care of sheep on other days.
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The council do fund agency carers to come in to help them get Thomas up and ready in the morning onschooldays but that's not enough to allow Tommy to get back to work full-time as a plumber.
Even although his father knew that he was not going to school, he refused to confront or reprimand him about his conduct and he only made it into class on 159 out of 335 schooldays.
The Department for Education calculates that some 3.9 million full schooldays were missed in all, based on the premise that each pupil in England should attend school for 380 half-days a year.