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.
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  • 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
  • We will publish test results, exam results and truancy rates and ensure that there is regular independent inspection.
  • Yes it can get revoked as you need to show proof of being in school (Its called truancy) until you are in college. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • I am determined to use my national responsibilities to launch a concerted attack on truancy and ill discipline in schools.
  • With this truancy law at their disposal, teens and pre-teens are on the verge of absolute power.
  • The best way to cut truancy rates is to make school worthwhile for all pupils.
  • We will publish test results, exam results and truancy rates and ensure that there is regular independent inspection.
  • In other measures, he calls for schools to use new technology to tackle truancy - by sending texts or emails to alert parents of absent pupils. The Sun
  • Other funds are aimed at developing alternatives to exclusion from schools if pupils are involved in bullying or truancy.
  • A south Essex mum jailed for her daughter's persistent truancy today branded her imprisonment a ‘waste of time and money’.
  • Our stance on school attendance and truancy is immovable.
  • The government will pay local councils 4,000 a family if they reduce truancy, youth crime and antisocial behaviour or put parents back to work. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some education authorities have cut truancy by introducing electronic registers, which can plot patterns of absences.
  • Of equal interest to the clinician is the fact that whereas the DSM system for antisocial (or sociopathic) personality relies solely on historical, social class-related diagnostic criteria (e.g., truancy, drug abuse, criminality), the Tyrer system provides some cross-sectional behaviors that can be directly observed by the examiner (e.g., irritability, callousness). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • At Pimlico School, the comprehensive I attended, we used to call truancy "bunking off". Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk
  • Tighter controls are being enforced at a York school in an effort to crack down on truancy and lateness.
  • These countries do not appear to suffer truancy or antisocial behaviour on anything like the scale that is seen in the UK. Times, Sunday Times
  • New crimes by the dozen were invented for the young that had never been considered crimes by adults: playing ball on the street, staying out late, consorting with older men, truancy, immorality, and the all-encompassing "incorrigibility" -- all basically crimes against the self, not others -- often resulting in standard sentences of three years or more. Dr. Robert Epstein: Juvenile Injustice: The Scandal in Pennsylvania Is the Tip of an Ugly Iceberg
  • The warning came as Essex officials announced that a truancy sweep yesterday netted 26 children bunking off in just two hours.
  • When passed, it would limit the amount of time that juveniles are detained for "nondelinquent status offenses," such as truancy, running away or violating curfew, alcohol and tobacco laws. James Bell: One Size Does Not Fit All: A Slippery Slope to Increased Juvenile Incarceration
  • That's also why you've messed up your last year at school with truancy and drink and drugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • More officers on the ground may help curb antisocial behaviour on Saturday nights and in blighted housing estates, but this is a problem with several deep roots – poverty, truancy, failure of parental control, the lack of things to do and chaos and violence in the home. We can't just leave it to the police – we must all tackle antisocial behaviour
  • Nevertheless, even the staunchest advocates of non-legal solutions to truancy seem to accept that legal procedures must continue to be available.
  • He was flogged regularly for smoking, truancy and fighting.
  • If the school's overall attendance rate is poor, then the school may well suspect a high level of condoned truancy.
  • Last year's figures were better, with one of the lowest growths in truancy for a long time, but still showed a slight increase.
  • Rates of truancy from school have only increased minimally.
  • The exhibition on the theme of growing up in a small fishing village looked at stories of truancy, illness and religion and what children of those bygone days did during their leisure time.
  • The situation in Hull is a typical example of why the Government announced earlier this week a major crackdown on truancy.
  • According to Zsombor Peter of the Albuquerque Journal $1M Spent on Truancy, With Little To Show for It, Apr. 22, 2008, the state government has recently released a report documenting that 67% of APS high school students are classified as habitually truant from class. Errors of Enchantment » APS Has Problems Educating Students
  • It has unemployment levels at three times the national average and truancy rates run five times above average measures.
  • A national crackdown on truancy has seen fast-track court action against parents of hardcore truants.
  • A properly designed school can enhance education and behaviour, and reduce truancy. Times, Sunday Times
  • In similar fashion, the book-love of the minor Romantics (a kind of mimic or miniaturized bibliomania) allowed for a certain truancy to the high Romantic notions of authorship and the literary imagination that those same essayists were devoted to promulgating. Introduction
  • Truancy is banned, as is associating with certain other people named by the court.
  • Minnesota village, I had never heard of adenoids, hypertrophied tonsils, myopia, hypermetropia, or the relation of these defects and of neglected teeth to malnutrition, truancy, sickness, and dullness. Civics and Health
  • Educational neglect occurs when a child is allowed to engage in chronic truancy, or is of mandatory school age but not receiving schooling.
  • Going on holiday without a school's permission is tantamount to truancy, said the junior education minister.
  • Yet despite highly publicised anti-truancy initiatives - which have even included telephone hotlines urging the public to report truanting pupils - non-attendance still remains at crisis point.
  • Hunter, the board writes, "has an intimate knowledge of the needs of the ward and has smart ideas on how to tackle issues such as truancy and joblessness," adding: "Mr. Hunter is not a supporter of marriage equality, but he is not the homophobe his critics make him out to be, but rather someone who thinks there is a way to provide equality for gays while respecting the beliefs of religious groups. DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 2, 2010
  • They want to know how school examination results compare, about the level of truancy and about the staying-on rate after 16.
  • Girls' average age of entry was fifteen, and the overwhelming majority were incarcerated for incorrigibility, immorality, truancy, desertion, and petty theft.
  • We are storing up problems with truancy and disruptive behaviour. The Sun
  • To avoid young people offending in the first place, there will be more drug education in schools and schemes to tackle truancy and the number of excluded youngsters.
  • When passed, it would limit the amount of time that juveniles are detained for "nondelinquent status offenses," such as truancy, running away or violating curfew, alcohol and tobacco laws. James Bell: One Size Does Not Fit All: A Slippery Slope to Increased Juvenile Incarceration
  • He was expelled two months ago for behavioural and truancy problems and returned on Friday to resit a maths exam.
  • He went down with them to Nazareth, and lived in subjection to them"; the moral is not, after all, to be in favour of truancy. She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians!
  • Officials suggested some of the rise in truancy was due to headteachers getting tough, leading to more recorded cases.
  • School dodgers are facing a serious crackdown in September as more than 50 truancy officers are ready to tackle the growing problem.
  • These are the youngsters who are likely to suffer, according to a measurable matrix of factors such as truancy, disobedience in school, and teen pregnancy. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
  • Truancy is a passport to a life blighted by wasted opportunities, unemployment and even crime.
  • Youngsters who have a history of truancy or poor behaviour or who have just arrived in the city from overseas can find it particularly difficult to find a school place.
  • Teachers in a city with the second worst truancy record in the UK have accepted that the only way they can ensure pupils do not bunk off to watch matches is to show the games in school.
  • Going on holiday without a school's permission is tantamount to truancy, said the junior education minister.
  • During the sweeps, police anti-truancy vans visit schools and officers visit every child absent from school without a justified reason on that day.
  • An attendance officer has been employed to work alongside the LEA's welfare service in tackling persistent truancy.

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