truancy

[ UK /tɹˈuːənsi/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹuənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. failure to attend (especially school)
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How To Use truancy In A Sentence

  • Two points are deducted if pupils are persistently disruptive and three points are docked for the most serious offences, including bullying, truancy or swearing at staff.
  • About 50,000 children in England bunk off school each day, despite the fact that millions of pounds have been spent on initiatives including town-centre truancy sweeps.
  • But many other researchers have concluded that legal intervention is of extremely limited value in truancy cases.
  • It's a curious truth that, in the middle of a multi-million pound anti-truancy drive, most of the people this campaign is aimed at simply don't know what those in authority are talking about.
  • It could be used in court at an application for a parenting order or during a prosecution for truancy.
  • He also noted a rise in pupils staying away from school, although truancy rates remain largely constant.
  • Is it one of those great ideas where the parent is sent to prison if their children is a persistent truancy offender?
  • To tackle truancy effectively conventional education must be complemented with more informal learning methods. Times, Sunday Times
  • Truancy officers caught 154 children skiving between September and December last year, 42 of whom were with their parents.
  • A large number of them, 36,496, were not for violent or dangerous crimes but for status infractions such as truancy, incorrigibility, running away and curfew violations. Marian Wright Edelman: National Cradle to Prison Pipeline�� Summit This Week
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