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One way to protect children and youth from human trafficking, and in particular protecting young women from being trafficked for sex, is through education. Education is perhaps the most important long term solution to reducing poverty and the conditions that allow human trafficking to flourish. In a recent case on Guam, young Chuukese women, including some underage women, were taken from Chuuk by human traffickers and forced into prostitution at the Blue House in Guam. Fear and a lack of knowing what to do - a lack of education - kept these young women from seeking help. The club owner, Song Ja Cha, was sentenced to life in prison. Subsequently three police officers were charged in connection with the Blue House case. The officers' cases are still in the courts with police officers who were convicted appealing that conviction to the Guam Supreme Court.
One of the weaknesses that has been identified in the education system in Chuuk is teacher attendance. Teachers are often absent from the their classes. The following table provides data for elementary schools in Chuuk state. The data comes from the Chuuk State School Facility Repair and Construction Master Plan, Version 1.0, 31 May 2012 available from the PITI-VITI web site. The region, name of the island, and name of the school, are in the first column. The second column is the Chuuk State Junior High Entrance Test (JHET) percent correct. The third column is the percentage of the total possible days of attendance for which teachers attended school. Perfect attendance would be 100%. There are a number of problems with using this data, not the least of which is the percentage nature of the data. There is not, however, a lot of publicly available data for the schools in Chuuk state. Provide numeric support for answers to the following questions.