truancy
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More than 50 members of staff at Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire first walked out on Wednesday as one teacher said truancy was "rife" at the school.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Dr Summers says Luton has been trying to move away from seeing school absences as "defiance and truancy".
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025
It also forbade suspensions and expulsions for truancy and tardiness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025
Harriet’s spying is partly the product of her parents’ truancy and partly a result of her deep affection for the world around her and all those who inhabit it.
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2025
I imagined the school truancy officers—Recruiters, we called them—coming for us, noses to the wind, sunglasses reflecting the row of houses behind which we were nestled in our wooden dream home.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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