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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.

  3. Millions of Kids Are Chronically Absent From School. The ...

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    While frequent absences were a problem before pandemic school closures, the lasting effects of online learning have led to consistently high absenteeism rates. Millions of Kids Are Chronically ...

  4. School refusal - Wikipedia

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    School refusal behavior includes absenteeism due to a broad range of potential causes. School refusal can be classified by the primary factor that motivates the child's absence. School refusal behavior has no single cause. Rather it has a broad range of contributing factors that include the individual, family, school, and community.

  5. More Than 1 in 4 Kids Are Chronically Absent From School ...

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    Since COVID-era school closures, chronic absenteeism has increased from 15 to 26 percent, with poor districts struggling the most. More Than 1 in 4 Kids Are Chronically Absent From School, Report ...

  6. Too many kids are chronically absent. How can schools bring ...

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    An estimated 16 million students nationwide missed a substantial chunk of the last school year. Experts say there's no one solution to getting them back into the classroom consistently.

  7. Compulsory education - Wikipedia

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    Head teachers can only grant leave of absence if they determine that there are exceptional and very compelling reason for the child to take leave of absence from the school. To go on vacation with the family is usually not an exceptional reason to be granted leave of absence. A fine can be issued for those who do not follow the rules. Switzerland

  8. Absenteeism - Wikipedia

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    Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation without good reason. Generally, absenteeism refers to unplanned absences. [1] Absenteeism has been viewed as an indicator of poor individual performance, as well as a breach of an implicit contract between employee and employer.

  9. The number of pupils absent from school for prolonged periods of time has risen, Government figures suggest. Data from the Department for Education (DfE) indicates that 2.1% of pupils were ...