truancy
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The jury heard he had been expelled from school for disruptive behaviour and truancy hours before Aria's death, and that his mother had taken away his phone as a punishment.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
In contrast, at Locke, Green Dot agreed to manage an existing, massively struggling, eyesore campus associated with periodic brawls, truancy, single-digit academic proficiency rates, a 40% graduation rate and few college graduates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
He said banning phones had also addressed the problem of "pupils texting one another to meet in the toilets, or be out of lessons", leading to a reduction in internal truancy.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
It also forbade suspensions and expulsions for truancy and tardiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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
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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