Mark Brown from Newtown Primary School—a school of 400 kids, 70 percent of which are non-English speaking—again echoed those same comments. They have a plan, they have systems in place, they have strategies, expectations on parents, they make it easy for kids to get to school, they work closely with attendance officers, and their Māori kids attend school 90 percent of the time. I just want to bring to the House's attention a comment that he made that resonated with me when he said schools need to be proactive and not accept that it's OK to not turn up.