School absence was assessed via parental report on the number of days missed at school within the preceding 20 school days for schoolchildren aged 6 years and above.
He spent his afternoons in the British Museum reading room, writing novels and reading what he had missed at school, and his evenings in search of additional self-education in the lectures and debates that characterized contemporary middle-class London intellectual activities.
The control group, which was matched for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), racial and socioeconomic status, family education background and time missed at school, was composed of 79 healthy children (27 males and 52 females), attending a state school in the same geographic area.
Why, just Tuesday, his oldest of three boys, 8-year-old Sean, demanded to know the reason his father would be the only one missing at a school presentation later that night.
In 1990, Billy Underwood goes missing at a school fair in Dexter, Oklahoma.
About 15% of New York City elementary school students are from families that are homeless, another hard to teach population missing at Success schools because they are unable to complete the application process.
This should be considered alongside the fact that many children would be missing additional school days while attending the hospital and recovery the following day culminating in the majority of children missing at least 2 school days with some children being absent for up to 15 days.
There were a lot of things missing at that little school (that combined two grades into each classroom), but the proper use of English was not among them.
Long afterward, he heard Jamie dropping down from his trapdoor like a cat, prowling the house, helping himself to food in the kitchen, letting himself out the front door with his bike; he cycled for hours at night and then slept half the day, probably missing classes at school.
They miss work and they miss days at school.
