Almost one in three children refused to go to school at least once in the past year, has discovered a new poll.
The research of families by charity Mentalkind showed that 31 percent of the students settled at the school, equal to 3.3 million.
Ten percent of them, equal to 330,000 children, had missed school for two or more weeks.
Arguments about going to school were a weekly event for 34 percent of parents, and daily for 6 percent.
Not enjoying school was the biggest cause of absence, cited by 15 percent of the parents.
In the meantime, 9 percent pointed to a lack of special educational needs, and 7 percent blamed the poor mental health of their child.
The research among 1,000 parents of children aged four to 16 was conducted by Censuswide for charity.
It turned out that 96 percent of the parents thought it is important that children should go to school every day if they can.
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has called for a 'national effort' to combat the 'Epidemie of School Disability'
The research of families by Charity Peentkind showed that 3.3 million students were separated in the past year
Only 48 percent of the parents thought that fines effectively prevent children from missing school regularly, with 38 percent who say they don't.
Fines for absence have risen from £ 60 to £ 80 and are usually imposed on those who take their children vacations in the long term.
It is after shocking statistics have shown that one in five children have been classified as 'persistently absent' and missing a school day every other week.
The government recently announced a performance against the 'absence epidemic', including the implementation of new data systems to follow students.
Jason Elsom, Chief Executive of Parentkind, said: “We need an end to the finger waggings approach and parents have to give more support.”
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson told The Times: 'We need a national effort to tackle the epidemic of school disability.
'This powerful research shows that parents understand that every day matters and that we do the urgent work to support them.
“This includes making presence an important focus of school inspections, offering access to mental health care professionals for all schools and reforming the special educational needs system.”
