This is a problem, but slippages happen across the ability spectrum, and lower-ability pupils have the added problems of being more likely to truant, be excluded or become unemployed.
Sometimes, he says, an expensive car, its occupants rendered helpless by truant domestic help, will drive into a slum looking for them.
Certainly it has played truant from the negotiating table quite skilfully.
Another pair of truant Stanford graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, invented Google, a search engine that Yahoo! chose not to buy, mistaking search for a feature of web portals rather than a new approach to surfing.
Growth in fiscal 2000 dropped for the second year running, to an estimated 6.0%, depressed by a truant monsoon and an overhang of industrial capacity built in more buoyant times.
Google, also founded by two truant Stanford PhD students, became the leader of a new generation with a vision that web search, rather than Yahoo!'s "portal" approach, would guide surfers around the internet.
The education system, left to atrophy for 30 years, is crippled by every possible ill: crumbling classrooms, poor teaching materials, untrained and truant teachers and endemic corruption.In this section Peace breaking out Hun Sen wins again Troops out?
Each school-day a quarter of Indian teachers play truant.
They may lack transport, secure housing, even a telephone.Encouragingly, the social-exclusion unit has decided to focus on three specific problems: poor housing estates; the problems of children who are expelled from school or who are persistently truant; and street homelessness.
Nor did they see that Kim's monstrous regime, which would last another 41 years until he died in 1994, was built on fiction.In this section The great bobachee-connah Blindly over the brink The grammar of hard facts Tyrant and truant Chronicles of the years of fire ReprintsIn 1945 No Kum Sok was one of those who thought that young Kim, the Soviet poodle, was a sham.
By 14 he was playing truant and pilfering.
