truancy
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Dr Summers says Luton has been trying to move away from seeing school absences as "defiance and truancy".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
Assembly Bill 461 would end the treatment of truancy as a crime under state law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
But they said the Academy Transformation Trust, which runs the school, had taken "decisive action" to address "unacceptable standards of behaviour and internal truancy".
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
It also forbade suspensions and expulsions for truancy and tardiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
He became annoyed when I smiled and informed me that my truancy was “no laughing matter.”
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
He was hospitalized three times for psychiatric issues and had repeated school suspensions, expulsions and truancies much of his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2018
The reports detailed his history of special education classes and school truancies, as well as 26 juvenile arrests, psychiatric hospitalizations and medical diagnoses, including post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood traumas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
Student identification badges will not only immediately show who belongs and who doesn't but also contain bar codes school administrators can instantly scan to show everything from previous tardiness and truancies to medical records.
From Time Magazine Archive
When students realized that attendance officers could not call home to check up on them, Hinsdale schools reported a sudden surge in truancies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blithe truancies from all control Of Hylë, outings of the soul?
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
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