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  2. Truancy - Wikipedia

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    Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures.

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    Truancy is an offense that occurs when a student has unexcused absences. Parents are responsible for a child’s regular attendance at school. ... We continue to work to educate and support our ...

  4. Truancy Intervention Project, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Truancy Intervention Project, Inc. (TIP) is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization serving children ages 5 to 15 declared truant in the Atlanta City and Fulton County public school systems. Founded in 1991 TIP, previously named Kids in Need of Dreams, Inc. (KIND) , provides positive intervention services to children reported as truant .

  5. Compulsory education - Wikipedia

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    The Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, known for his own work on education (including Emile, or On Education), said, 'To get a good idea of public education, read Plato's Republic. It is not a political treatise, as those who merely judge books by their title think, but it is the finest, most beautiful work on education ever ...

  6. MISSING IN CLASS ACTION: As school resumes, officials work to ...

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    Aug. 9—August is National Truancy Prevention Month, and local school resource officers say the rising problem is caused by a variety of factors. Officer Marcus Sams, director of operations for ...

  7. Bibb County Schools targets truancy in aim to improve academics

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    More than a quarter of Bibb Schools students were chronically absent last school year, according to attendance data obtained by The Macon Newsroom

  8. Truancy (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Truancy is a dystopian novel written by Isamu Fukui, a New York City student in Stuyvesant High School, when he was 15 years old. [1] Set in a totalitarian city ruled by its Mayor and Educators, it follows the story of a fifteen-year-old student named Tack, and a student rebellion calling itself the Truancy.

  9. Homeschooling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Some parents want more opportunities for their children to socialize with a wide range of ages, to travel more, to do more field trips, to visit museums, to do outdoor education, to attend concerts, to visit work places, to tour government buildings, to seek mentorships, and to study nature outside. A homeschooling family can typically do more ...