Sentence examples for truancy of from inspiring English sources

It was hard to sustain the truancy of wartime among the unburied corpses and skeletal survivors.

Schools, councils and police can also imposed fixed penalty notices for truancy of £50, rising to £100 if they are paid after 28 days.

Allowing states to, in essence, punish the vast majority of students — those who are well-behaved and show up to school every day willing to learn — for the indifference or truancy of the minority who are chronically absent seems fundamentally unfair.

Similarly, both the frequencies for truancy of 4.9% at a mean age of thirteen years and of 18.5% at a mean age of sixteen years and the increasing trend with age are consistent with previous findings [ 3].

Jon Venables had been held back in school a year on the ground not of truancy but of academic performance.

Since it clashed, invariably, with the wrap-up of final-examination meetings, the getaway to the members' stand added the enlivening excitement of truancy to the end of each teaching year.

Barbara Woodall, 34, from Bury, Greater Manchester, was given a curfew because of the poor truancy record of her daughters, 14 and 15.

We don't allow that kind of truancy, so it's not clear why we should put up with such poor teaching.

Under this increasingly popular system of truancy enforcement, instead of giving students detention or some other in-school punishment for "unauthorized" absences, schools are now opting to fine parents and force them, or their kids, to serve jail time.

Although four Roundhay staff in high-visibility jackets used a loudhailer to deter truancy, dozens of their pupils joined the protesters for a two-mile march to join the main rally outside Leeds art gallery.

In a national United States sample of adolescents 8th and 10th graders who are typically 13 to 16 years, Henry estimated a 4 week truancy prevalence of 10.5% to 16.4% in 2003 [ 7].