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truancy

[ UK /tɹˈuːənsi/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹuənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. failure to attend (especially school)

How To Use truancy In A Sentence

  • They want to know how school examination results compare, about the level of truancy and about the staying-on rate after 16.
  • 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
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