At Pimlico School, the comprehensive I attended, we used to call truancy "bunking off". From Wordnik.com. [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Yes it can get revoked as you need to show proof of being in school (Its called truancy) until you are in college. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Status offenses were generally minor crimes such as truancy or curfew violation. From Wordnik.com. [Its Our City] Reference
And students with minor offenses, such as truancy, are sometimes sent to her for disturbing schools. From Wordnik.com. [Island Packet: Home] Reference
"Shortly thereafter, the states began to pass what are called truancy and mandatory attendance laws. From Wordnik.com. [Illinois Review] Reference
Or there may be problems at school, such as truancy, that the club doesn't find out about until it's too late. From Wordnik.com. [News for Lynchburg News Advance] Reference
A full-time East Side staff member works with the school, helping with issues such as truancy and homelessness. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
"truancy:" a total of two absences and five tardies. From Wordnik.com. [Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union] Reference
"in need of supervision" - who have committed non-criminal offenses such as truancy, running away and missing curfew. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Sentinel: News] Reference
GARCIA (on-camera): The truancy problem just doesn't add up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008] Reference
Cornell's nomination, since such truancy would aid his election. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
He ` s working in a mentoring program now, an anti-truancy program. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2005] Reference
I tried to arrest them all for truancy, but the movie was starting. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006] Reference
The authorities put me in there for truancy, for not going to school. From Wordnik.com. [Merle Haggard Reflects On His Outlaw Country Past] Reference
It sounded as if his father intended to report Mullet Fingers for truancy. From Wordnik.com. [Hoot]
He might pay for his truancy later, but he thought it well worth the risk. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
He thought the world of Theas; whom I'd left sleeping, innocent of my truancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Four weeks later, the boy went missing from school, his first act of truancy ever. From Wordnik.com. ["U Want Me 2 Kill Him?"] Reference
What he's doing is he's saying, look, you see him right there holding truancy court. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2009] Reference
And now I had to deal with Mrs Nesbit, apparently accused of a new offence of truancy. From Wordnik.com. [Rumpole and the Reign of Terror]
Barry's goal is to cut the truancy rate from 50 percent to zero, one student at a time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008] Reference
Nervousness led in scholarship, in disorder, in absences, in truancy, and in backwardness. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
With the help of the principal of the school make a study of some specific cases of truancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference
Three students were arrested after they clashed with police, 100 others were cited for truancy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2006] Reference
Being in law enforcement, Roy's father probably was required to report all crimes, even truancy. From Wordnik.com. [Hoot]
So entrenched was the boys 'truancy that their mothers no longer bothered to get them out of bed. From Wordnik.com. [Disordered Minds]
In addition to losing benefits for truancy, the teens get increased benefits for staying in school. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of Shame] Reference
His school career is characterized by truancy, and he never made an effort at an industrial career. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
"This looks like a hot mess," she says, pulling up across from five police squad cars and a truancy van. From Wordnik.com. [Summertime keeps D.C. alcoholic beverage control investigator on her toes] Reference
School life was characterized throughout by truancy and disobedience and finally terminated in expulsion. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
FRIEDMAN: Well, the California court held that it would be truancy if home schooling is not credentialed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2008] Reference
Then there is the lure of the water, which explains more than half his school truancy during the open season. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference
Teachers by law are supposed to report suspected neglect or truancy to child protection officials, which they finally did. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2003] Reference
She drove her daughter to school each day, repeatedly grounded her for truancy and placed her in weekly counseling sessions. From Wordnik.com. ['Mom Was Mad.'] Reference
He belongs, in other words, to the good school, the only school, all aberrations from nature being so much truancy and anarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
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