When you get home, make sure that you guard the phone for truancy calls, and maybe prepare an excuse if you don't get home in time.
That was her 10th absence, so a truancy officer was called.
Truancy prevention, as called for in the Act, can address underlying problems at home and in school.
Skipping or missing school is called Truancy, Be aware that your school might send a police or sheriff officer to your house.
Salvatore Corda, Norwalk's superintendent of schools, said he supported the plan and called the truancy regulations "a leverage point".
The Board of Education did not endorse the mayor's call for sanctioned truancy.
But during Saturday's debate, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said that accomplishment was missing an important detail: Mr. Rubio, the governor said, was not present at the Senate to vote for the bill's passage — calling his absence "truancy". Here are the facts: Mr. Rubio, indeed, proposed the legislation and considers it an achievement.
And there is now that strange new sense of guilty truancy from leaving e-mails and phone calls unanswered while conspicuously tweeting or posting on Facebook — a social breach for which we don't yet seem to have developed any sort of etiquette.
With only a few weeks remaining in the current school year, New York City has launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign that asks, "It's 9 00 AM Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?" Prior attempts at reducing truancy have included celebrity messages and "robo" calls made to the homes of the chronically absent by famous rappers to encourage attendance.
"In 1993, the Orange County public schools in Orlando, Fla., called us and said they had behavior, truancy and dropout problems with kids who couldn't read, and we did a pilot program with them," said Dr. Hasselbring, now a professor of education at the University of Kentucky.
