Week Eight Text Blog Entry Six--- Move To Stem Truant Growth

Here is a link to an article about truant growth. Truancy rates have grown 41 per cent in New Zealand since 2002, with 30,000 children a day wagging school last year. The truancy problem is a national problem. Truants are people who commit huge numbers of crime.New Zealand school will share ideas with other countries to deal with truancy. National party education spokeswoman Katherine Rich said truancy officers had high workloads and school needed greater resource.

There are active voice and passive voice.
(1) are contracted --- present simple passive
(2) were stretched --- past simple passive
(3) has (not yet) been set --- present perfect simple passive
(4) to be extended ---passive infinitive
(5) to be given --- passive infinitive