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be truant
noun
One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
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If we only get one child to go to school and not be truant, it's worth it".
Even tougher, new drivers found to be truant from school have their driving privileges suspended until they provide proof they've been in school for 30 consecutive days.
Students who are truant in elementary school are more likely to be truant in middle and high school, when truancy is closely linked to an increased chance of a child dropping out.
Officials estimate that there are close to 1 million elementary school students in the state who are truant each year, but that makes the problem sound worse than it is because any student who gets to campus late three times in an academic year is deemed to be truant.
Our findings that males were more likely to be truant could be a manifestation of cultural expectations.
We found that adolescents who reported parental supervision and support were less likely to be truant than those who lacked these social supports.
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Attendance officers identified children missing ≥20% of school in a 6-week term without a known cause, excluding those with a single episode off school, a known medical illness explaining the absence or known to be truanting.
(Fifty percent of them are truant).
Now it is his younger brother who is truant.
Several have been sent by the courts for getting in trouble or being truant.
By her sophomore year at Queens Vocational and Technical High School, she had stopped being truant and had begun to excel.
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