truancy
IPA: trˈuʌnsi
noun
- The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from attending school.
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Examples of "truancy" in Sentences
- Punishments imposed for truancy.
- I would link bunk off to truancy.
- This is commonly known as a truancy sweep .
- However, truancy and unlawful activity increased.
- Credit will not be given for work missed due to truancy.
- In 1993 it had the highest truancy rate of schools in England.
- He was expelled at the age of seventeen from school for truancy.
- In adolescence, they may show patterns of truancy and delinquency.
- The highest truancy or absenteeism rate, A level results, GCSCE results
- He soon drifted into petty crime and was eventually arrested for truancy.
- At Pimlico School, the comprehensive I attended, we used to call truancy "bunking off".
- Yes it can get revoked as you need to show proof of being in school (Its called truancy) until you are in college.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."