| 单词 | truant |
| 例句 | Back in the main office, a secretary ran the attendance sheets through a machine and a recorded call went out to the parents’ home phone, alerting them about their truant children. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Shut up, you truant. I didn’t ask you to make conversation.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you aware that the school district has special police who go out searching for truants? They’re very good at their jobs, 1 assure you.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I had seen other truants being lashed mercilessly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They stowed most of their gear in a collapsed building far from the center, a crumbling place that even truant uglies would probably avoid, packing only water purifiers, a flashlight, and a few food packets. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z No teacher would ever entertain the thought of mitigating, in any way, the punishment of a truant. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maiwee! Did you have to call him a truant officer?” said Eye. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I will not play truant...I will not play...I will not...I will...I...I... Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A man severe he was and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Even as children we had a great love for them, they drew us vaguely thither, we played truant the whole day by them and listened to their rustling. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Chief Heiserman made it a point to speak to the truant officer, who assured him that Cal not only had no record for playing hooky but actually was a very good student. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now that Mr. Brooke was obliged to make very unsatisfactory reports, for Laurie was always playing truant and running over to the Marches’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Social note: My truant mother is gone again, which is really rather fortunate. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the opera’s most inspired moments occurs when the truant Rose Ora hears her own voice delivering a recorded sermon on the radio and proceeds to sing a gorgeous duet with herself. Remembering Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher 2010-07-09T22:50:00Z As adolescents, he and Freddie developed their own truant version of Laurel and Hardy. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Sure, I did; in fact, as a punky, truant teenager, I had believed that Jesus was the greatest anti-establishment radical of all time. Personal Journeys: In Pennsylvania, a Quick Shot of Peace, on a Budget 2011-12-29T18:59:14Z For his authority and his notoriety, Turbo Paul says he is grateful above all to Google, which, as he sees it, has given a onetime truant a place at the front of the class. The Medium: Art-Theft Blogs 2010-06-04T16:35:00Z Lear's celebrated limericks demonstrate the antic disposition of a society that loved to play truant from its sober self. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z “I was a terrible high school student — I pretty much was a truant,” she said. A Curator Unbound: First She Was Fired. Then She Found Freedom 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The local council is always about to run out of grit, and our boiler is definitely jinxed, but come the first snowfall "we are out playing truant with the toboggans". Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z The President made good on his threat, fired the truant eleven thousand three hundred and forty-five controllers, and banned them from federal employment for life. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Later, Munch and I played truant from art school to see Jailhouse Rock on at a cinema just up the road. My teenage crush on the Rolling Stones won't fade away 2012-11-26T15:14:54Z Chalky knows, from having children, that if the girl doesn’t go to school today, someone might send a truant officer around. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: 'Jesus Was Wrong' 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z On the sidelines, Eric and his mom have a deep talk about her tough love and his truant father. The Bachelorette Season 13, Episode 8 Recap: Home Town Dates 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z He danced the flamenco hot-foot and skipped like a schoolboy evading a truant officer. Iggy brings the raw power 2010-08-31T05:00:00Z Taking their places at his side were "Simpsons" producers Al Jean and David Silverman and actress Nancy Cartwright, who voices the role of 10-year-old truant Bart Simpson. 'The Simpsons' set to invade the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The other two have a reputation as regular truants. Why I smoked my son’s drugs 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Feeling truantly, cozily alone, I set up shop with my laptop, but not before regarding the view. Napoleon on the Backstairs 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Kicked out of his London home, he still has his Saab, and with “that old truant sensation of release from homework,” he starts driving. New Books by Jim Harrison and Howard Jacobson 2011-10-19T22:58:24Z Some restaurants will send the truant customer a gift certificate for the amount of the fee. Restaurants Add Reservation Cancellation Fees to the Menu 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z This is made manifest by children playing truant and inappropriate behaviour within schools. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z Loretta is a serial truant who skulks behind a curtain of hair. Tonight's TV highlights: Keith Richards: A Culture Show Special 2010-10-27T23:04:00Z He was drafted in 1941 but was exempted from military service when an Army psychiatrist recognized him as the chronic truant he had treated at a children’s psychiatric hospital. Johnny Nicholson, Whose Manhattan Cafe Attracted ‘New Bohemian’ Crowd, Dies at 99 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z "He fought, he stole, he chased girls and he played truant!" Radio review: They Write the Songs 2011-03-16T07:59:01Z Mother and son then left for Los Angeles, where the young Goldstein, a truant at school, battled obesity. Review: ‘As I AM’ Explores DJ AM’s Rise and Decline 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z He and Georges Braque were art's Hans and Fritz, focused on dissenting from their artistic elders and becoming truants from the academy. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z On the other hand, in 1902 The New York Tribune described some of its clients as “the flotsam and jetsam of street boys, mostly confirmed truants at war with the police.” Streetscapes: East Side House Settlements: A Sight to See When Traffic Stalls 2012-11-11T05:27:15Z But in Bronzino, the presence of truant eyes is liberating as well as creepy. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z And that’s because she wanted to be part of the gang and wasn’t necessarily interested in being the truant officer of the family or the responsible caregiver. Steven Spielberg Gets Personal 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z When David Letterman interviewed Ms. Lohan in April, shortly before she was due to begin this latest rehab program, he sounded more like a truant officer than a comedian. ArtsBeat: Lindsay Lohan, Talk-Show Host 2013-08-06T14:58:23Z “I was thrown out for smoking, being truant and waving at the resident flasher,” she told Los Angeles magazine. Jackie Collins, chronicler of lust and power, dies at 77 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z However, his study of the princess, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth — and one of the 20th century’s great malcontents — is gloriously truant. Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z But after his father's death, the teenager found himself "bored, alienated, resentful and entrapped", playing truant from Rugby's Dunsmore school. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z Rambunctious twins Hans and Fritz gleefully rebel against authority, personified by their bourgeois parents and their school's truant officer. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z With no provocation at all, he walked me down some more filthy corridors and we ended up in his headquarters where I was booked as a truant. Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The story begins with school truant Jake Wilde, as he prepares to murder one of his teachers, dressed as one of the pupils in the fight scene in Hamlet that is being rehearsed. The Obsidian Mirror by Catherine Fisher - review 2012-12-28T09:00:00Z Call them the two-year tooth truants, who diligently stayed away from dentists’ offices during the pandemic, eventually began to lean on it as an excuse and now need help alleviating their oral-health woes. The anguish of finally returning to the dentist 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z A lyrical retelling of the Cain-and-Abel story in which four Nigerian brothers play truant from school, go fishing and meet a soothsayer who predicts that one brother will kill another. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Murray's mother was dying of Aids while her daughter rode the subways at night for warmth, slept in stairwells on marble floors, camped in friends' houses, scavenged in rubbish bins and played truant from school. Breaking Night by Liz Murray ? review 2011-01-30T00:20:00Z Running day schools, as the state does elsewhere in the country, is especially tricky, Kumar said, given the truant disposition of both teachers and tribal children. The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Many Londoners took the opportunity to play truant from their responsibilities. The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z Parents who don’t pay child support may find that they lose their driving privileges as will young drivers who are truant or delinquent. How To Find Out If A License Is Active Or Suspended? 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The children's commissioner said some children play truant while others experience anxiety or have educational needs so find it easier at home. One in five children regularly miss school, figures show 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a truant officer at his door, though — no one had ever come knocking about that. Sentenced to life as boys, they made their case for release 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z He "didn't take school very seriously" and recalled playing truant one day with his friend - the headmaster's son - "to go bird-nesting". James Chadwick: The Brit chief who worked on the nuclear bomb 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z O'Connor eventually moved out to go and live with her father but she often played truant to go shoplifting. Obituary: Sinéad O'Connor 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z One teacher, who taught English for non-native speakers, remembered him as a soft-spoken but truant teen. Special Report: How a fake ID let Hyundai suppliers use child labor in Alabama 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z “You could imagine that many housing insecure youth were effectively truant or skipping school and are now finding their way back.” California public school enrollment continues decline, still reeling from pandemic plunge 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The idea of cutting benefits for parents of truants was first suggested by Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2002, but it was dropped in favour of the current fines system. Cut parents' benefits over school truancy, suggests Michael Gove 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Another 34% of the decline is hard to track, but some students were probably going truant, doing unregistered home-schooling or simply opting out of kindergarten. Revolutionize American schools 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z But I think it can be just as interesting to think about the way the pictures like his slide away from such narratives, like truant schoolchildren. Review | Scarred by defeat, they gave birth to a golden age of Danish art 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Public School system which, ironically is ramping up efforts to track down truants as if they were outlaws. Perspective | Who’s responsible for D.C. violence? Ask the youths closest to it. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Depending on local laws, parents can also face jail time and fines when their children are truant. Young and Homeless in Rural America 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z He grew up in Phoenix; his father was a Jewish plumber, his mother worked at the Jewish Community Center, and as a child he was a bright but restless truant. How to rescue a cult victim: An interview with Rick Ross, professional deprogammer 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z He was on the county's Child Protection Register having been deemed at risk and he often played truant from school. Rikki Neave: How killer James Watson was finally caught 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The witness however said she believed punishments handed down to Sebastian for apparent playing truant and lying, which included being banned from family trips, were "too severe". Sebastian Kalinowski: Murder accused laughed and smirked after boy's death, court told 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Campbell hated classrooms and authority, longed to be the “master of my own time” and was constantly “doggin’ it,” that is, going truant. Review | The tale of a dropout who found purpose in books, travel and just living 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “If a kid is truant from school, there’s usually a reason for that, and in my experience, it’s either drug abuse, domestic violence or homelessness,” he said. Young and Homeless in Rural America 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z At a football game that fall, he was caught with a BB gun and suspended from school; he was truant often, the court filings show. `From crisis to death’: Probing teen’s last, desperate hours 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Another state law prohibits schools from notifying police when students are truant so officers can ticket them. The price kids pay: Schools and police punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He was on the county's Child Protection Register having been deemed at risk and he was often truant from school. Rikki Neave: How killer James Watson was finally caught 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z We recently sought and received a federal grant to implement universal screening of all youth who enter Juvenile Court, including Family Court Becca Programs that work with those who are at-risk, runaway or truant youth. There are no child ‘sex workers’ — trafficked youth are victims 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Even before the pandemic, the county’s Superior Court had long since abandoned using jail or fines to punish truant students and their parents, according to Connor Lenz, who manages related court programs. Keeping kids in school during the pandemic has been tough. In WA, at least 29,000 can’t be found. 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr Watson, whose father lived on the same estate, was in care and playing truant from school when he was spotted playing with Rikki on the day of the killing, jurors heard. Rikki Neave murder trial hears of 'surprise attack' in Peterborough 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z More than 1,000 of those tickets were issued after Jan. 1, 2019, when a state law went into effect that prohibited schools from notifying authorities about truant students so police can ticket them. The price kids pay: Schools and police punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z When students tried to run away — an eight-mile flight up that winding road — the police in the village of Hancock knew to be on the lookout for truants and simply brought them back. Survivor993 Is Not Alone: Lawsuits Show Abuse at School for At-Risk Teens 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Kids who skipped school, she remembers, would hide from truant officers behind the amphitheater. What Does It Mean to Save a Neighborhood? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z There is no official data on absence due to school anxiety and many affected pupils are labelled truants but support groups are being flooded with calls. Parents warn of tsunami of school-anxiety cases 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z "At the part-time secondary school, I would truant because of the intimidation of not having friends and not being able to read," says Noel. Subnormal: The scandal of black children sent to 'special' schools 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The high school handbook says students are considered truant if they repeatedly arrive more than five minutes late to school and warns tickets could be issued if phone calls, letters and home visits aren't effective. The price kids pay: Schools and police punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman last week described the re-entry of the United States into the Paris climate agreement as a “truant getting back to class.” Biden’s Climate Summit Sets Up a Bigger Test of American Power 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “Its return is by no means a glorious comeback but rather the student playing truant getting back to class.” Amid Biden Climate Push, a Question Looms: Is America’s Word Good? 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Latino, Black, disabled and homeless students represent the lion’s share of truant students, according to the most recent state data. Welfare checks and hotspots: how a school district is fighting to keep kids in class amid Covid 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Written as the teenagers played truant from school, it has never been officially recorded - although a snippet was previously heard in the Beatles' Let It Be movie. Sean Lennon to host birthday show for his father 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z In other instances, investigators have been helping families secure computer tablets for their children to attend online school after they were reported as truant because they had not been logging on during class. Child Abuse Cases Drop 51 Percent. The Authorities Are Very Worried. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Some of it involved her truancy policy as a district attorney, which threatened criminal charges against parents of truant students. Racial tragedies add to pressure on Joe Biden to create a racially balanced ticket 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Screwy Squirrel decides to go fishing instead of school and the truant officer tries to find out why. Movies on TV this week: 'The Deer Hunter,' 'White Christmas' and more 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Critics have faulted her, though, for working in court to uphold California’s death penalty, despite her personal opposition, and for her threats to jail parents of chronically truant schoolchildren. California's tough-on-crime past haunts Kamala Harris 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z He played truant, and was disruptive when he did turn up. The homeless death of Jake Humm: 'It was my deepest, darkest fear' 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s no longer about descending on the house of a struggling or truant student. D.C. schools try to meet students where they live 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z These students were not on strike, one British Conservative MP tweeted, they were truants. Why are young activists attracting so much hate? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Third grade teachers can usually predict which of their students will become truants and dropouts. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z That’s tough talk from someone who, as attorney general for California, oversaw a system that profited from prison labor and who threatened parents for truant public school students with jail time. Alabama editorial roundup 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Sometimes there’s seven family members sleeping in a one-bedroom apartment, Wheeler said, and the kids are chronically truant to school. Opioid crisis, system shortfall hurts New Hampshire children 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Courts could imprison runaways, repeat truants and kids who are beyond their parents’ control without finding them guilty of any crime in order to connect them to services that would address the underlying issues. Washington on right path to truly help troubled youth 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Only juvenile truants and curfew violators are not handcuffed unless they become violent. D.C. attorney general to review police procedures after officer detains 9-year-old boy 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Only juvenile truants and curfew violators are not handcuffed unless they become violent, according to police rules. Police say youths, including 10-year-old, used pellet gun to rob boy of his phone 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The “Becca Bill” allowed judges to order kids to be incarcerated for being truant from school or running away from home. It’s time to right the wrong of jailing runaways 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “The teachers and truant officers said I was headed for reform school if I didn’t change my ways,” he told the magazine Blues & Rhythm, the Gospel Truth in 1998. Andre Williams, R&B singer and producer known as Mr. Rhythm, dies at 82 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In elementary school, I had played truant often and gone into one of the tunnels with a box of matches. “All Will Be Well” 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z But there’s a lot more to Matthew Broderick’s career than that immortal high school truant. IMDb file: Matthew Broderick is a lot more than just Ferris Bueller 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In the video, she defends her decision to penalize — and sometimes jail — the parents of truant children in the city, despite controversy surrounding the plan. Sen. Kamala Harris gloats about the truancy policies she imposed as a prosecutor in resurfaced video 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Bragman tweeted: “Kamala Harris continued on to describe how she'd brought charges against a single homeless mother of 3 who was working 2 jobs because her children were truant...and this was a success story.” 2010 video shows Kamala Harris boasting about prosecuting parents, including homeless mom with two jobs, whose kids missed classes 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In a 2010 speech, Kamala Harris laughed as she described the backlash to her decision to start prosecuting the parents of children who were truant from school. Kamala Harris: resurfaced video on truancy prosecutions sparks backlash 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z She pointed to her support of an initiative that threatened the parents of habitually truant elementary school children with jail time. Kamala Harris officially enters US presidential race 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z In Oregon, courts have issued hefty fines to the parents of truant schoolchildren. How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z In the speech, Harris laughs about sending her office's homicide and gang prosecutors into San Francisco schools to meet with parents and administrators discussing truant students. Sen. Kamala Harris gloats about the truancy policies she imposed as a prosecutor in resurfaced video 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In interviews, students, staff and parents said Wolf Point’s schools push Native children into a poorly funded, understaffed program for remedial and truant students. U.S. to Investigate Discrimination Against Native Students on Montana Reservation 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z In California, black fifth-graders are five times more likely than whites to be chronically truant. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The junior and senior high schools, which together have about 300 students, shunt struggling Native students into a poorly funded, understaffed program for remedial students and truants, often against their will. On a Montana reservation, schools favor whites over Native Americans 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Thus courageous Lila unexpectedly turns back when the girls play truant to glimpse the sea. From Fellini to Ferrante: the cinematic vision of My Brilliant Friend 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z At a rally in Pennsylvania in August, Trump mocked Casey as "Sleepin' Bob" and said the longtime Democratic senator was a truant who is "so overrated." Trump hosts Pennsylvania rally, saying canceling as Floridians confront Michael's wrath would be unfair to thousands waiting in line 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z I hadn’t had occasion to play truant in close to a decade, and ditching class elicited a familiar thrill. Lessons from the Last Swiss Finishing School 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z About one-third of the students are former truants, 20 percent struggle to speak English and 10 percent are pregnant or parents, according to the school’s website. Mass. families file class-action lawsuit days after gas explosions, fires shocked towns 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z This year, SHA started personalizing its letters to families with chronically truant students. Simple ‘nudge’ letters can boost school attendance, new research suggests 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday that deputies and Shreveport police arrested nine parents of 15 frequently truant children, and are looking for nine more. Going after parents whose kids have skipped lots of school 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Last year he became a re-engagement specialist for Chicago Public Schools, where he is tasked with finding and motivating 150 truants across 15 high schools, and he plans to continue working in education. Settling for a subpar job right out of college can hurt your career for years 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In January the Austrian Education Minister, Heinz Fassmann, announced fines ranging from €110 to €660 for parents whose children played truant. Police at airport stop 'truant' families 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z "I always manage to. I always play truant." Brigitte Macron on life at the top 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Critics may carp that Donald Trump skipped economics class, like a certain 1980s movie truant. What Trump has in common with Lincoln and Ferris Bueller 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Recent reforms make clear that truant students will no longer be allowed to graduate. Opinion | Where can DCPS go from here? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The Times of Munster reports that an ordinance approved last month by the Portage City Council will allow police to cite parents of children who are chronically truant. Portage officials to establish truancy court 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The sources say the investigation is focused on Ballou High School, where allegations were first raised about diplomas being wrongly awarded to chronically truant students. D.C. superintendent of education says her office is cooperating with federal probe 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The nature of the inquiry is unclear, but the probe is focused on Ballou High School, where allegations were first raised about diplomas wrongly awarded to chronically truant students. FBI, U.S. Education Department investigating Ballou graduation scandal 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z But there’s got to be a better way than turning students who are trying to learn into truants, and a teacher who is trying to teach into an outlaw. In Seattle, teachers are going rogue just to take kids on a field trip 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Just as he was offered a spot, his parents had him arrested as a truant. Meet the Teen Who Snuck Aboard a Polar Expedition 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Twenty-two percent of students were truant during the 2016-2017 school year, recording at least 10 unexcused absences — an increase from 12 percent the previous year — according to data from the school district. On first day back from holiday break, D.C. leaders stress importance of good attendance 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The latest report, however, shows these new resources haven’t gone to some of the counties that jail the most truant and runaway kids. Fund alternatives to keep truants and runaways out of jail 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Under the law, a student with more than 10 unexcused absences in a school year is considered a “habitual truant.” New Mexico prosecutors file charges in truancy cases 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Under the law, a student with more than 10 unexcused absences in a school year is considered a “habitual truant.” New Mexico prosecutors file charges in truancy cases 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Why doesn’t the D.C. attorney general’s office put more truant officers to work? Perspective | The only way to fix bad high schools is to start over 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z The report also recommended ending the practice of placing noncriminal kids such as truants and runaways in secure confinement, while reducing detention for lower-risk juveniles accused of drug crimes, property crimes and probation violations. Youth-detention news: Promising, but too early to celebrate 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z A considerable portion of pupils would routinely truant and walk around the school building avoiding their lessons. Willenhall school 'riot' saw teacher injured by pupils - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z This is the choice that faces truant first-year fashion students at the Wuhan International Culture University, according to the Chutian Metropolis Daily. Chinese university makes truants clean up after opposite sex - BBC News 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z She said many prisoners attended multiple elementary and middle schools and became truant. North Dakota penitentiary offers GED classes 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z He did not like attending school and was often a truant. Jacque Fresco, Futurist Who Envisioned a Society Without Money, Dies at 101 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z In days gone by, truants and their parents were summoned to court and fined. Abuse often at root of truancy, officials say 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z "They installed a stove and wallpapered the walls," it reports with some admiration for the truants' "spirit of initiative". Siberian police demolish truants' home-made pub - BBC News 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The charity said it had a referral from a school in Leeds last week regarding an eight-year-old girl who they thought was playing truant. Charity warns of FGM 'parties' taking place in England - BBC News 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The ambassadors serve as peer counselors to truant students and mentor them to academic success. Kids don’t learn when they’re not showing up to school 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Squads of truant officers would go sniffing around finding kids who were evading high school, and they threatened parents with fines or even jail time and got them to comply. Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z His alleged accomplice in the shooting, also a frequent visitor to Burman’s classroom, was truant. Highline struggles with fallout after limiting student suspensions 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Those who do not log in for 30 days are reported as truant. Online School Enriches Affiliated Companies if Not Its Students 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Officials at High Road did not report him to the court as truant until February, records show. Police say boy, once his 8th-grade graduation speaker, became a killer at 17 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Shonka said options could include taking in truant students and homeless students or making the campus - which already has a herd of cattle, horses and a greenhouse - an agriculture-focused career center for nearby school districts. Fate of school for troubled teens rests with Legislature 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The truant Rubio can't do the job he's been hired for, but he thought he could run for the highest office in the land by not showing up for work. Rubio’s Exit and the G.O.P.’s Spoiled Buffet 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z He started young - selling paraffin off the back of a lorry, having left school at 15 a serial truant who learned to neither read or write. Who was timeshare king John 'Goldfinger' Palmer? - BBC News 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The book inspired me: I played truant from school and tried drifting around my own provincial town of Reading. Think big, be free, have sex … 10 reasons to be an existentialist 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z He set up a toll-free number to report truant teachers, and painted it on every school wall. Fighting Truancy Among India’s Teachers, With a Pistol and a Stick 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Recently, he joked that the “truant officer” was out for Rubio over his regular missed votes in the Senate and said that Hillary Clinton would “cut his heart out” in a general election. The Republican debate is going to get nasty 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Officials say the school continues to have a high number of truants who aren’t logging on enough for lessons. Virtual charter school sees 25 percent enrollment drop 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Council is pushing to minimize the number of students considered truant by giving them credit for showing up for any part of the school day — even if they arrive hours after the first bell rings. Tardies at all D.C. schools would not count as absences under proposed law 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Borer hopes the new position also will lead to improved graduation rates and help truant students stay in the school district. Lakeview Community Schools add attendance monitor position 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z When the truant offered a letter from a relative of a government minister pleading for leniency, Mr. Mishra grabbed it and, with a frown, tore it in half and dropped it to the floor. Fighting Truancy Among India’s Teachers, With a Pistol and a Stick 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Citing a meeting with truant students a few years ago, Henderson said that “one of the biggest reasons” for student absences was transportation. D.C. students will be riding Metro for free this year 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The system had similar contempt for homeschoolers, tending to treat the students as truants and the parents as criminals. Why More Urban Parents Are Choosing Homeschooling 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Before 2010, students weren’t considered chronically truant until they reached 28 unexcused absences. Tardies at all D.C. schools would not count as absences under proposed law 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z “I am a Marxist who plays truant,” he said gleefully, an agnostic who dwells frequently on the idea of God. A Product of Tunisia’s 1960s Resistance Continues to Protest 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Similar scenes played out repeatedly in Mr. Mishra’s fluorescent-lit office recently, as one truant after another appeared before him, trying to explain their absence from school. Fighting Truancy Among India’s Teachers, With a Pistol and a Stick 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In the worst case, if the department determines that a school’s instruction was not equivalent, ultimately, children who attend the school would be considered truant. New York City Questions English, Math and Science Taught at Yeshivas 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z In particular, people fear being caught up in what’s known as a “giffa” – a flash raid on a certain area by troops looking for truant conscripts. It's not at war, but up to 3% of its people have fled. What is going on in Eritrea? 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Yet even if the levy doubled, it would be cheaper to play truant 14% of the time. Truancy pays 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This also saves money, as no-shows cause trial postponements and police must spend time looking for the truants. The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice | Tina Rosenberg 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “Unregenerate citizens” can be saved “many costly perversions, in case the official school-masters are wise, and the pupils neither truant nor insubordinate.” Childishness on campus 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But he was a wild man, an outlaw, a laughing truant, and she was a good girl, a good student. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z His brother said Halbower was often truant from school and didn’t get along with teachers or fellow students. Suspected California serial killer in prison most of life 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z I was a truant last week, but I’m back at climate denial school with two weeks’ worth of learning to catch up on. The greatest hoax? Not by a long shot: Climate denial school takes on the conspiracy theorists 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Working with a young man I met when he was a 15-year-old truant and on the cusp of lawlessness, I learned that care and attention, applied without ceasing, can make a difference. Baltimore’s ills are D.C.’s too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Told by her teacher to stop studying and get a job, Marieme plays truant with her new group of friends and becomes a gang fighter. Could Girlhood change the face of modern French cinema? - BBC News 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The email contained a spreadsheet of 402 students appearing truant, some for seven months. Ohio lawmaker wants superintendent to talk e-school truancy 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z The whistleblower provided a list of more than 400 specific students listed as truant, some for most of the school year. Lawmakers forward e-school attendance allegations 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Others visited the homes of truant students to find out what was preventing them from attending school. Why couldn’t $130 million transform one of Baltimore’s poorest places? 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Strong prevention and intervention programs are the only way to return most truants to class. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Montgomery was a 17-year-old 10th grader who was playing hooky from school when he shot Deputy Charles Hurt at a park where the officer and his partner were looking to round up truants. Free after 3 decades in prison, sprinting toward a new life 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The officer and his partner were looking to round up truants. Justices to review sentences for young convicts 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee meets once the full chamber adjourns and will discuss a series of bills designed to overhaul how Texas tracks and punishes truant students. Highlights from around the Capitol 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Last year, 8 percent of D.C. public school students were chronically truant in elementary schools and 10 percent were chronically truant in middle schools. Chronic truancy rates above 50 percent in D.C. high schools 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Plus a few others: Lawmakers said they expect bills that would pay for more services for homeless students, guide school districts in reducing absenteeism without sending truant kids to court, and expand school breakfast programs. Olympia Watch: Besides money, what will lawmakers debate? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The second, in September, found that black elementary schoolchildren were chronically truant at nearly four times the rate of all students and faced suspension from school at disproportionately high rates. California’s top cop targets crimes against kids 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Students are considered truant if they miss at least seven days of school. Truancy up in southern Illinois schools 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The scapegrace daughter of a high-minded suffragette, Margaret “Peggy” Mitchell was a tomboy truant, then a flapper who acted up at parties while her mother marched for the vote and attended to the sick. What Is It About Gone With the Wind That Still Enchants Us? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The truant eighth-grader said his best grade this year is a C, in history. A disciplined approach to punishment at school 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z At the Las Vegas conference, Nadelmann chastised the pot entrepreneurs, sounding like an exasperated high school principal scolding truants, except that he swore a lot. Marijuana legalization backers anxious as costs mount, donors waver 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z But there were also emotional problems, with pupils saying they found it harder to focus on homework and coursework and an increased likelihood of getting into trouble at school or playing truant. Divorce 'damages children's GCSEs' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “So if a student misses one period a day, they’re truant,” Jackson said. Educators, parents sound off about D.C. truancy laws Instead of heading to the mall as many truants would, three teenage girls from the suburbs of Denver boarded a flight to Germany. We have much to learn about homegrown terrorism 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “Ever since the new principals came it’s gotten a lot harder,” the chronically truant boy said. A disciplined approach to punishment at school 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Scotland Road struggled with more and more pupils - many of them serial truants - arriving. The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z A student is considered truant after being tardy by more than 30 minutes or missing school three times during the school year without a valid excuse. Brown splits package of bills aimed at reducing truancy 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Shortly after the incident, he heard that Trayvon was chronically truant in high school. George Zimmerman's family speaks 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z That still leaves more than 13,000 students who are chronically truant, not including thousands more who rack up excused absences. D.C. anti-truancy program is getting more kids to school But to the D.C. public school system, the eighth-grader from Mount Pleasant is also a truant. In D.C., a 13-year-old piano prodigy is treated as a truant instead of a star student In effect it became a sink school for truants, says Lisa Murphy, an academic at South Bank University who is researching free schools for her PhD. The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Harris expressed disappointment with Brown’s decision, noting that about 1 million elementary school students in California are truant each year. Brown splits package of bills aimed at reducing truancy 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z She said most of those dealing with psychological trauma become withdrawn or truant. Influx of illegal immigrant children presents challenges for U.S. schools 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z There's now a generation raised on the transgressive menace of his imagination, a world that invites the reader to trespass on the dark side of human experience, and play truant from normality. Ian McEwan: 'I'm only 66 – my notebook is still full of ideas' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z D.C. bureaucrats will label the kid a truant, will mar her transcript with that assessment and will assign a truancy officer to the case. In D.C., a 13-year-old piano prodigy is treated as a truant instead of a star student Harley, the oldest, is a chronic truant, with a mother in prison for reasons that, when revealed, will break your heart. ‘Rich Hill’ movie review: Dead ends and dreams deferred And in 2012, it began diverting truant students to counseling at off-site resource centers rather than issue tickets. Los Angeles schools make discipline less harsh 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Last year, Harris commissioned a study that found that one in four California elementary students -- nearly 1 million total -- were truant each year. L.A. Unified students return to school with more teachers on the job 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z This isn’t about kids bringing guns and other weapons to school, or kids who’ve adopted “constant truant” as a middle name, or kids who think education is an allergy, or bullying and violence. SIMMONS: Surprise! Schools kick out toddlers 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Government teachers played truant for years at a time. Boko Haram: Terror’s Insidious New Face Currently parents receive a £60 penalty notice if their child plays truant. Fine 'bad parents', says Ofsted boss 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes, he says, an expensive car, its occupants rendered helpless by truant domestic help, will drive into a slum looking for them. Jockin Arputham: from slum dweller to Nobel Peace Prize nominee 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Supporters argued that incarcerating truant youths created a so-called school-to-prison pipeline that can lead to a lifetime in the criminal justice system. California bill would bar jailing of minors for truancy 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr Gove is also expected to call for tougher penalties for parents who allow their children to truant. End illiteracy 'within a generation' 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Morrell said judges should have the discretion to jail truant youths in the most extreme cases, where “they completely have defied the court.” California proposals aim to help young offenders 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Jefferson Jimenez, 19, spent many of his teenage years as a truant delinquent in Inwood, a neighborhood in northern Manhattan. Need Scholarship? Join Scrum 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The California bills introduced Monday would require school districts to submit a count each year of how many students were truant, as well as an analysis of the reasons. California lawmakers take aim at elementary school truancy 2014-03-10T23:59:24Z Young people who regularly eat their main meal with their parents are much less likely to be truants, says an analysis from the OECD. Meals with parents truancy link 2014-01-21T18:22:00Z It is understood cigarettes were confiscated at the start of the day but returned at break times in an attempt to stop pupils playing truant. School 'let pupils aged 11 smoke' 2013-10-17T14:54:24Z And one of the biggest problems facing the education sector is that many teachers play truant, often not turning up. Malala Misses Nobel, But Remains a Winner 2013-10-11T19:05:22Z She said that as a boy Burnett played truant, threatened his sisters with a knife and once tried to commit suicide. Scotland's last execution - 50 years ago 2013-08-14T23:18:34Z There are a number of reasons young people play truant: special educational needs, peers, personal issues or unsuitability to the classroom environment and a requirement for practical learning surroundings. Independent garage drives truants to success 2013-07-10T07:00:00Z Across developed countries, 18% of teenagers played truant - with Latvia the highest and Japan the lowest. Meals with parents truancy link 2014-01-21T18:22:00Z Officials also complied far more often with a law requiring that truants be referred to the city’s child welfare agency or court social services. D.C. school system reduces truancy rate 2013-06-24T21:22:50Z The truancy court “offers the best chance for truant students to get back in class and graduate,” said Judge Clay Jenkins of Dallas County. Complaint Filed With Justice Dept. in Texas Truancy Cases 2013-06-12T04:01:01Z “With the state cuts to dropout prevention, the Dallas County system offers the best chance for truant students to get back in class and graduate.” Dallas area schools to face federal civil rights complaint 2013-06-12T04:01:09Z However, parents won’t feed the truant until it grapples back to the nest. Blue jays: Nature’s helicopter parents 2013-05-27T21:13:20Z He was truant from school and then skipped his probation meetings. Program Keeps Troubled New York Youth Close to Home 2013-05-04T21:55:47Z And, like a zealous truant officer, David Lacey is doing the rounds of English clubs and forcing them back into school to learn to play in Europe again. The Fiver 2013-03-15T15:41:12Z Last year, schools referred 21 percent of truants ages 5 to 13 to the Child and Family Services Agency; now that number is up to 93 percent. D.C. Council frustrated with city’s progress on truancy 2013-03-01T13:27:30Z It reads: “Phantom pain is the codicil allowed by any conscious luminary in response to any truant limb or an apportion of the limb.” Phantom Pain Site Update: Will The Mysterious Game Be A Next-Gen Metal Gear Solid? 2013-02-20T00:12:13Z Council bill that would require prosecuting parents of chronically truant children, calling it expensive, unneeded and an overreach of legislative power. Tougher D.C. anti-truancy bill assailed by Gray officials 2013-02-13T01:12:00Z As soon as the blue-eyed boy unfortunately played truant, you got people turning around and saying, ‘Manufacturing will help us out of this particular hole,’ but nothing came along to actually help manufacturing achieve that.” Shortage of Engineers a Strain on Britain's Economy 2013-02-03T23:03:05Z It was with a touch of truant glee that Kopseng skipped out of his office to fly me around the oil fields on a windy morning last spring. North Dakota Went Boom 2013-01-31T12:00:12Z At the urging of the council, the school system is now referring many more truant students to the city’s child welfare agency, as is required by law, than it was before. D.C. Council frustrated with city’s progress on truancy 2013-03-01T13:27:30Z The parents of persistent truants would be fined under plans being considered by the Welsh government to introduce fixed penalty notices. 'Slow progress' claim on truancy 2013-01-17T06:58:38Z The agency now investigates truants 13 and younger. Tougher D.C. anti-truancy bill assailed by Gray officials 2013-02-13T01:12:00Z Jurors were told sometimes the girls were targeted while they were drinking or playing truant. Girls suffered 'depraved abuse' 2013-01-15T12:53:30Z He began skipping class, often going to the park or wandering their Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, neighborhood with truant friends. The Neediest Cases: Disabled Young Man and His Protective Mother Deal With Life’s Challenges 2012-12-15T02:26:46Z “Children had to be brought back, no matter what,” she surmised, the truant couple not around to riposte. A Notorious French NGO 2012-12-10T05:00:00Z We get kids that are playing truant in the week, still going to classes on a Saturday to learn the real history. Zephaniah warns on black history 2012-10-20T00:32:00Z “Taking children away from their homes or putting parents of truant children in jail should be, as they are now, rare and extreme measures of keeping children in the classroom,” Nathan said. Tougher D.C. anti-truancy bill assailed by Gray officials 2013-02-13T01:12:00Z He delineated the difference between the word chori, which means stealing, and kamchori, which means playing truant, a distinction that implies his uncle meant to advocate taking off from work instead of stealing. India Ink: For Akhilesh Yadav, the Honeymoon is Over 2012-10-17T07:55:40Z Mr. Stratton writes, “He was a truant, a thief, a reformed juvenile delinquent, a great athlete, a record setter, a national hero, a role model, fallen knight, a scorned has-been and a respected gentleman.” Bookshelf: Books on Floyd Patterson and Edith Wharton 2012-07-28T05:26:08Z Believing, incorrectly it turned out, that school was in session, the officer thought the boy might be a truant. Appeals Court Calls a Stop-and-Frisk Illegal 2012-06-27T02:20:50Z On a typical day last Autumn some 55,600 pupils skipped lessons, official figures suggest About 3.7 million school days were missed last autumn by pupils playing truant according to official figures. Truants 'miss 3.7m school days' 2012-06-14T12:45:53Z Once, he said, as he was driving a group of truant high school girls back to school in a police car, one of them asked, “Aren’t you Steve Savage?” provoking a cascade of giggles. City Room: The Stripper in a Police Uniform? He's for Real 2012-05-20T19:00:29Z Albert," he said, laughing, "I have never yet beheld so great a change of Love's making as that which the truant boy has wrought in thee. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z Truant officers, who may be required to serve only part time and who may receive pay for actual services, are set over specified districts and required to bring in all truant school children. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Woe to him if imagination leads his reason into truant wanderings; woe if he drop the thread of finely-drawn deductions! The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In III. a desperate mother brings to the schoolmaster a truant urchin, with whom neither she nor his incapable old father can do anything. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z "Ah! truant," she said, with a glance in which kindness and a little austerity were mingled. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Children who are truants or are convicted of criminal offences can be treated in the same way. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z Half the servants had played truant, and her woman had been cross, and for hours together no one had gone near her. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Our Ulysses finds himself in the gardens of Alcinous: our truant is fairly caught. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z A few, venturous truants, disappeared in the direction of the seraskierat wall, not far off. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z He had sent into the park after the truant, but presumably the man had failed to find her. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z The truant schools are being gradually emptied, and several have been closed. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z At length, feeling that anything was better than sneaking there, like a boy who had played truant and feared to go home, he started for the Hall. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z And it's wonderful how o'er the gray sky-track, The truant warbler comes stealing back. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z If ye see all, ye traitors, say Why saw ye not my love to day:— He pass’d my door,—but, truants, ye Gave not the gentlest hint to me. Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z "With your permission I will go and ask her," said the admirer of the truant, and bowing politely to us both, he followed Ida. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z I came out again, vowing vengeance on the truants; and there in the entrance, facing me, standing where the Count had stood a few minutes before, I saw the last man I looked to see! My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z "Back to your books, boy, and be whipped for playing truant!" Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z "She's a perfect stranger to me, but I understand she is a matron of truants' home, and I thought she would like a little fun; but I was mistaken." Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z I know I have done very wrong, and I was an idle boy to tempt him; but you yourself could not help playing truant to-day. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z At a little distance, it appears as though the truant summer wind had lodged a delicate white feather here and there upon the branches. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z You don't deserve your food either," she continued, shaking him fiercely, "playing truant all day! A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z For two pins, popping her insulted vanity into her pocket, she would write to the truant Jean, of whom she vaguely heard sometimes as being quite of importance at Blois. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z In common with nearly all those who have paid attention to this matter, Mrs. Alger believes that the truant school strikes at the root of the problem of juvenile crime. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z "It is a picture of the little boy who played truant and tempted another little boy to play truant too." Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z We have frequently startled the little truants from these siestas, and with amusement watched them struggling for a moment before regaining consciousness and whizzing away once more upon their round of duties. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Hours wore away, “The evening came, the sun descended,” and the truant insects returned to their hive, to the great joy of the observant overseer. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z We looked about for some time, but could not see any thing, until the word was repeated with emphasis, 'Maracaná!' when we espied the little truant half concealed in the foliage of a tree. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z We got the school, and in Mrs. Alger, at the time a truant officer, a person singularly well qualified to take charge of it. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z "You hurt me," wailed the truant, "and I don't want to go." Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Then it occurred to her to get some fresh hay for the hutch, and while she was away Bianco and Lily took it into their heads to play truants. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z As he entered the precincts, Wogan felt much like a truant boy, and it was as if Time had stood still while he ran. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z He tried to explain to the dejected Jinny that they would probably have the truant back again before long. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Upon Warrisden's request she told him what she knew of the couple who lived in the dark house and played truant. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z You may traverse whispering cloisters heaped with fallen crosses, with truant tombstones, and severed heads and limbs of august prophets. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z But I hardly needed even that protection to screen me from these truants. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Yet, if he could have known, Borrow was better employed playing truant and living up to his life-work as a glorified vagabond than in studying in the ordinary school routine. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The Squire received his wife and daughter as if they had been playing truant, and intimated that now they had come home they had better put everything that had been happening out of their heads. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z A hansom jingled past him, and by the light of the lamp which hung at the back within it he caught a glimpse of the truants. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z From a child he was seized with a141 passionate disposition for travel, and would steal out of his father's house and play truant when he was yet scarce seven. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z “Oh, no, thank you,” faltered Thistle, observing one truant curl that had escaped the confines of Nora’s field hat. The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge Nora's Real Vacation 2012-01-20T03:00:14.427Z By degrees the truants all fell out of line and were picked up, tired and hungry, along the road, and brought back to Norwich School, where condign chastisement awaited them. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The poor little soul, Unused to control, O’er the threshold just happen’d to stray, When a sly cunning dame, Mary Magnay by name, Enticed the young truant away. p. City Scenes or a peep into London 2012-01-20T03:00:10.690Z When they walked out in the afternoon they kept away from the Park; when they played truant in the evening, at the Savoy, they chose a little table in an obscure corner. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z In nearby Calexico, a truant officer was dispatched to photograph students crossing the border, but the practice was deemed “an exercise in futility” and discontinued, said Richard Fragale, the superintendent of schools. Young U.S. Citizens in Mexico Up Early to Learn in the U.S. 2012-01-17T02:56:29Z His hogs were in the pen; the truants were hers. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z Borrow’s biographers have dwelt at length upon one episode of his schooldays—the flogging he received from Valpy for playing truant with three other boys. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z It was evident that this was not Jean's first attempt at playing truant. When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z Regular as Warrisden had declared the lives of the truants to be, on the night following the dance at Lady Millingham's there came a break in the monotony of their habits. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Young Coleman plays truant from school, and one day, when the school is empty, breaks and defiles the horse. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z After requesting somebody to show him the idiot who had left those hogs out that he might punch his head, he drove straight at the truants, and missed them, of course. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z She flung back her head with a gesture that set truant curls tantalizingly astir and flapped the reins on the horse's back, but in quick afterthought she drew him down again. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z But his thought played truant and before he knew it he would be going over secretly certain things in his head. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z "I have no doubt that the truants lived there, and that the new road begins at the foot of the steps," he said plaintively; "but neither statement adds materially to my knowledge." The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The maid gave chase, the lambkin ran As only woolly truant can Who never felt a crook; But stayed at length, as if disposed To drink, where tawny sands disclosed The margin of a brook. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z The truant was not satisfied yet, and actually accompanied the apprentice to his master’s house for the purpose of trying to become a chimney-sweep himself. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The truant officer never found his way to Paolo’s tenement to discover that he could neither read nor write, and, what was more, would probably never learn. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z Teachers must do their scolding for poor attendance, if ever, on the days of crowded seats, because then only are the truants present. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z The memory of the star-lit night, in last July, when from this balcony they had watched the truants slip down the steps and furtively call a cab, was busy in their thoughts. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z And timidly she glanced around, All fearful lest the slightest sound Might mortal footfall be; Then shrinkingly she stepped aside One moment—and her garter tied The truant to a tree. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z During the period of his connection with the “sooty trade” the aristocratic young truant went through many adventures and played many pranks. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z It was in the Seventh-Avenue school last Christmas that I offered the truant class a four-bladed penknife as a prize for whittling out the truest Maltese cross. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z Like snickering truants they skirted the balustrade, the shadowy privet hedge, the masses of juniper and bay and box, till they reached the point where the winding stairway dropped down between its high brick walls. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z His thoughts went back to the early days when they played truant, and truancy was good fun. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The truant officers in this region were not feared. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z At Westminster School, however, where the lad was placed in 1729, he at once showed himself brilliant and precocious, but vain, impatient of control, and of truant disposition. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Jean suggested the idea of his having played truant whiles, to advance his knowledge in this direction, and the lad only answered with a shrug which was half a confession. The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z The child had put a warm, eager hand into his; together they went into the wood, as happy as a pair of truant school boys; they might have been friends of long standing. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z "That is where the truants lived last July," said Warrisden, in a low voice. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z I shall be reproved for flaying truant... and I don’t care.” Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z I pledged myself willingly, smothering a wild desire to laugh; and, as it happened, it was I who met the truant riding home very wearily two days later. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z If he didn’t get the truants to school at least one time in October by the Oct. SchoolBook: Chasing Every Student, for Money 2011-11-23T20:18:02Z Of course they had been searching for the truants, and their hearts, which a moment before had been very low down, now jumped up into their throats, for they could see mother coming toward them. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z The dark house, where the truants lived and where"--she looked at Warrisden and smiled with a great friendliness--"where the new road began. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Everyone helped everyone get things back where they belonged, and by noon the Norm girls had succeeded in reclaiming the truant canvas and stretching it again over their summer belongings. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z Mrs. Harris discovered them on the piazza approaching the steps and exclaimed, “Ah, here come the truants.” An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z The track plays when a chronic truant enters the building and swipes his identification card. SchoolBook: Chasing Every Student, for Money 2011-11-23T20:18:02Z It is charged with establishing and visiting schools, selecting teachers, prescribing the courses of instruction, and appointing truant officers. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z She sent off a reply to Tangier-- "Bring truant to Roquebrune as soon as possible." The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Something in his look and tone brought the truant color back to her face in a crimson flood. The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z Here is a part of one of them: Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame, Who have wandered like truants, for riches or fame! Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z As that date approached, Mr. Kubiak, 51, obsessed over getting his truants logged on his attendance rolls. SchoolBook: Chasing Every Student, for Money 2011-11-23T20:18:02Z He was comfortably taking his tea at Sarah's table, when he was suddenly made to feel like a little schoolboy playing the truant. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z This was the real history of the truants with whose fortunes those of Warrisden and Pamela were to be so closely intermingled. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z On my return I borrowed elephants from the forest officer and started out on a systematic hunt for the truant. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z "Do you remember the day I played truant, Carla, and you found me in the canyon, and made me ashamed of myself?" The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z “Every month is October,” Ms. Napolitano says, insisting that she pays little mind to budget concerns and just wants to get the truant students back to school. SchoolBook: Chasing Every Student, for Money 2011-11-23T20:18:02Z She had determined to have the pleasure out of this one evening ride at least, and would not let her thoughts play truant to suggest what wider, sweeter realms might be for other girls. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z The light went up in the room on the second floor, and the truants crept out. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z But it did not bring the truant back. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z A solitary bird, truant to its mate, or perhaps a mourner for its loss during the day's excursion, is seen like a wayfarer, with tired flight, wearily labouring to reach the wood ere nightfall. The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z Chronic truants do not only affect a school’s budget. SchoolBook: Chasing Every Student, for Money 2011-11-23T20:18:02Z Politics was the school of the nation, and in it there were few truants. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z It was by his doing that the truants gave up their cheery little house in Deanery Street and came to live in Berkeley Square. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z But I did not see the second boat, and wondered why the men did not put off in this to pursue the truant instead of spending their breath in vain outcries. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z She wept over me, her truant boy, tears of joy. The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z The morning it was to be launched I played truant to witness the scene. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z By this time the truant officer ran over to the group and wanted to know what was wrong. Polly in New York 2011-09-18T02:00:27.103Z Only a few days had passed since Warrisden had pointed out the truants from the window of Lady Millingham's house, and had speculated upon the seclusion of their lives. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z In the last quarter, two truants sat in the worst category: JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Gotham: JPMorgan Chase Got U.S. Help, but Mortgage Holders Did Not 2011-09-13T04:22:11Z Still do I see thy sunny smile, In sportive dimples traced, Like truant beams of morning light By flitting fairies chased. Verses of Feeling and Fancy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.237Z And now away she quickly hies— O'er hill and dale the truant flies. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Inside the house lay the corpse of the beautiful young maiden awaiting her truant lover. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z What would they be if Tony were gone, if there were no hour or so at the end when they were free to play truant if they willed? The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z He had had a good deal to do with human remains, and fancied some truant rats might have effected the change, so he simply put the two skulls face to face again. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z No doubt the little caravan and the truants would return in a day or two. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z “Since the interval,” he answered, rising at her entry, and confronting her with the shame-faced air of a man caught playing truant. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z And not long after, the two truant feet carried Susy out into the street, among the carts and horses, and if God had not taken care of her, she would certainty have been killed. Little Susy's Little Servants 2011-08-28T02:00:39.053Z While the Seraph worked, I had plentiful excuse for playing truant. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z You have got to scold this young man, Val, for acting truant on Saturday night. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Here are dim restaurants, with truant smells for their advertisement. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now that Mr. Brooke was obliged to make very unsatisfactory reports; for Laurie was always playing truant, and running over to the Marches. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z The exercise brought his blood into circulation; he felt rejuvenated, a schoolboy playing truant, free, defiantly free! The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z But," objected Jack, looking thoughtful, "it's winter, and I think you can only be truants in summer. Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z Carr's temper was not altogether immaculate; he detached the children's clinging hands from his person, and said he would pursue the truant, publicly take the reins of authority from her, and send her home humiliated. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z By his own account he pursued his formal education between encounters with truant officers. Howard Stein, Who Helped Teach Public to Invest, Dies at 84 2011-07-30T19:52:25Z You are getting a sad truant from the office.” The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z Mute is the bell which rang at peep of dawn, Quick'ning my truant steps across the lawn: Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air, When the slow dial gave a pause to care. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z "I thought truants always met with lovely adventures." Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z Evidently she had been sent to find the truant. America First 2011-07-15T02:00:25.100Z Come into my room, my dear, while I wash my hands, and then we’ll go and join the truants in the garden. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z They accordingly had only these articles to check at the hat box, and hence the nickname of "apron-check ladies," by which this truant contingent was known at Joe's academy. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z Still her clasp of the truant had been almost fierce. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z This hope of "playing truant" did much to comfort them in the dread of possible lessons and punishments. Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z But Lance, excited in spite of himself, stepped joyously forward as he felt the miles slipping behind him, as though on some long-remembered schoolboy truant expedition. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z “I’m—I’m very sorry, my dear Mary,” said the guilty truant, with a look of appeal in his face. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z They had reached the party by now, and many a glance of reawakened interest was levelled at the younger of the truants, but in the slight stir attendant on the Colonel’s departure he escaped unscolded. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z There is no doubt but that the sarcasm was wasted upon the breed boys, who waited stolidly with her near some sheltering brush for the truant Ned, whose mischievousness had led him off the trail. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z "I think it would have been much better if I had started for the Golden City this morning, instead of playing truant." Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z I proposed that we should all go and hear Dr. ——, and forthwith led the way, my two companions following on, much like truant boys on their return march to school. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z One of our truant officers went to a poor home to find out why a boy who lived there had been absent from school for several days. Teaching the Child Patriotism 2011-07-03T02:00:11.747Z Ah, my pretty truant—the heart, that is so violent in its aversions, is in sad danger of being the same in its affections, depend upon it. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z We have recovered our truant, and there is not a moment of unnecessary delay to be permitted, until he shall be sent forth on this great voyage. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z I meant to start really to-day," she said, "but it's no good now, because we're doing a wicked thing to play truant, and you have to be good when you're walking to the Golden City. Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z They flew about the environs of Milton in a rapid search for the truant. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z "And you, my truant Helen, you've found time to come and see your mother, too," she added, as she embraced Helen. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z While the gallants who had clustered around the Countess were collecting my truant pearls, she walked across and glared into my face with eyes that blazed with fury. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z Hast thou not been a frequent truant from Castile; and, even when present, hast thou been as attentive and assiduous in thy duties at court, as becometh thy high birth and admitted claims? Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z She challenges the stereotype of Roma children who play truant, insisting: "These children want to learn." 'Gypsy patrol' 2011-06-08T07:01:11Z Either because of that, or the way my truant gaze followed Ellen's every movement. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Her quick gesture restoring the truant to place prolonged the thrill that had proceeded from the point of contact, with an intimation of self-consciousness on her part as well as on his. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Pero, one of the shepherds, while out looking for stray lambs on the hills, met the youngster and his wolf coming down with two of the woolly black-faced truants. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Luis is a truant, Se�ora, beyond a question, but it is not with ignoble motives. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z The very day after he started on foot, his father, with a friend of his, reached Annecy on horseback, in pursuit of the truant boy. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Many years have passed since that summer's day when I found a little truant sobbing so bitterly by the roadside. That Little Beggar 2011-05-21T02:00:09.877Z "Here's where I ketch hell fer somethin'!" he muttered, as she sighted him from afar; and when she rode up and faced him he hung his head like a truant. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Ah, truant!" cried the general, seeing her ascending the steps and coming forward, "here you are at last. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Ozema hath no hold on my heart, in the way thou fanciest—never had, beyond a passing and truant inclination"— "Ah! Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z He is, in fact, the town pound, to which everybody may commit the truant fancies that nobody else will tolerate upon the pastures and lawns of his attention. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z Then, leaving go of my hand, he made a sudden dash towards the truant, who as suddenly ran off. That Little Beggar 2011-05-21T02:00:09.877Z If ye see all, ye traitors, say Why saw ye not my love to-day:— He pass'd my door,—but, truants, ye Gave not the gentlest hint to me. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z Day after day passed without bringing news of the truant. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Still, for one so experienced, it was a sore indiscretion to trust to the constancy of a fickle heart, when placed in the body of a light-minded and truant boy. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z He saw repressed by a would-be secret bite of the lips, an entire flood of tears, save a truant one, that would steal its way down anyhow. Overshadowed A Novel 2011-05-07T02:00:24.483Z I ran round the house, stumbling through the rear-guard of the truant canines, and passing the kennel-master, who had rallied the stable men and was in hot pursuit. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z We have been sad truants, I know, and shall be punished by cold tea.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Mlle. de Saint Romans," said the Marquise, peeping into the room in order to reassure herself that the lady was there and alone, "see, I bring the truant back to you. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Four of his men went riding-- Went riding at his beck: They found the truant biding By beer in Bremeneck. Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems 2011-04-14T02:01:01.217Z So Audifax went to look for the goat; and after spending a whole day in the pursuit, he triumphantly returned with the truant, in the evening. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z It had been in my mind as I dressed that morning to play truant and visit the city. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z I suppose you are too used to all that purple loveliness; your eyes have not played truant once.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Dwight Eisenhower, an Augusta National member, was said to be among those who took a dim view of the eminent Stephens hiring a truant. Masters 2011: Carl Jackson is celebrating 50 years as an Augusta bagman 2011-04-07T16:47:36Z She was in quest of the truant Phebe, and well did she know where to find her. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z I'm very glad the truant has turned up again. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z The negro suggested that James might ride with the farmer who, he said, knew everybody and would help him find his horse and locate the truant brother. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z “Come here, you truant,” said Victoriano to Clarence, “come here, you ugly man.” The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z "You are an incorrigible truant, you always come too late;" said Lady Julia in loving reproach. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Forgive my hero this truant time; there was still something noble in his nature, that kept him back from becoming an imitator of what he eulogized. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z Then I remembered that poor Johnnie Roberts had called out about 'something shiny' over the stile just before he played truant. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z In a crackdown against truancy, parents of persistent truants faced jail and thousands of parents were fined. Truancy warning over council cuts 2011-03-16T02:13:46Z There is still no sign to be traced of her truants having passed this way. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Those truant flies have never yet, I fear, their rightful owner met. The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook 2011-03-13T03:00:22.773Z Daniel's story is not so different from my own; we were both miserable as teens, and we both played truant in the fantasy world of . I was a games addict 2011-03-11T09:00:00Z “He would come, George Vine;” and the giver of these last kisses and warm tears did battle for the possession of the returned truant. The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z Education welfare services are intended to provide an early intervention when there are problems with school attendance - such as going around to the homes of children playing truant. Truancy warning over council cuts 2011-03-16T02:13:46Z He would have liked to take the child in his arms and soothe her distress as one would have petted a bird fallen from the nest, or a truant, beaten dog. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z In 1971 they set up a school in north London for local truants from very poor, often criminal, backgrounds. Roger Diski obituary 2011-03-08T18:44:27Z Hugh suggested that his two companions should wait in the saloon while he sought the truant in other places of revelry. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Let me try to govern this truant pen, and keep it more closely to my chosen theme. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z A frightened kitchenmaid peeped through the passage leading to the back of the house when the door opened to admit the truant. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z In addition to a eunuch and a nurse, each of the royal scions is attended by guardians, whose office it is to prevent his playing truant or creating disturbances in the kingdom. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z But rather than playing Reagan to Wisconsin's truant teachers, Walker overreached, refusing to give up his union-busting even after the unions agreed to his benefit-cutting demands. Making sense of Wisconsin's union showdown 2011-02-23T03:40:04Z Laura sidled up to her as the matron prepared to set forth with the truants for the Hall, and whispered: “But wasn’t that mayonnaise lovely, Mrs. Cupp?” Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z At last, truant!" she exclaims, joyfully; "after three whole long, long days; and what has kept you from me? Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z As he said this, the thought of his parents, and of their grief and displeasure, if they should find out that he had played truant, came into his mind, and made him feel very unhappy. The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z “Miss Rice’s office!” she cried, after he had darted about in an unsuccessful effort to find a secluded nook not already occupied by truant couples. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z It was a hell of a time for Russia's security chiefs to play truant. Deadly Silence: Russia's Top Cops Stay Strangely Silent on the Airport Attack 2011-01-25T17:45:00Z “Who is it?” whispered Nan, while the other truants held their breath. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z An instant later he is followed by a trim maid-servant, who, flushed but smiling, rushes after him, making well-directed but ineffectual pounces on the truant. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z They have generally learned how to read as boys, either at home with their parents or in some institution for truants and "incorrigibles." Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z At that moment the truant dog bounded into the room, and leaping up towards the old lady almost knocked her over. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z "Here are the truants," said Mrs. Cardew, laughing, and Diana Munroe exclaimed that Aunt Esther had called them all to tea, and they had given up further hunt for them. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z What could be better than "Still the question I must parry, Still a wayward truant prove, Where I love I cannot marry, Where I marry cannot love." Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z "Oh! dearest grandmother, we truant children sometimes get conceits of this nature into our heads and hearts, without stopping to consult our relatives, as we ought to do." The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The old Queen was rejoiced to see her truant son come back so soon, and, moreover, not looking at all as seedy as he usually did after his little escapades. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Her hair tumbled over her shoulders, and the wind caught truant strands and made sport of them. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z He, the adored, the magnificent, should on his arrival in England, have bent the knee in all haste, and asked pardon for his truant disposition. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z If the late Miss Jane Porter, who wrote that prized book of truant youth, "The Scottish Chiefs," were only to have encountered this pretty man, she would have swooned with the joy of authorship. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z "I thought I was going to have to play truant all morning to get through my shopping list but it's quieter than a normal Saturday," he said, amazed. Christmas shopping: a slow start in the West End ? then the crowds descend 2010-12-23T19:08:06Z One morning when Gitto’s mother opened the door there he sat—the truant!—dressed exactly as he was when she saw him last, two years before. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z "I—I've been very foolish," she said, much after the manner of a truant child. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z I had sought him much as I might have sought a truant schoolboy, who would consent to be scolded and brought back to ordinary life again. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z I have often played truant from school, and challenged a thrashing, to drain the high pleasures of a well-contested main. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z They tell me that I had two sisters, Tsarevnas, and that the truant whirlwind carried them away, and that the rumour of them vanished as if it were covered with snow. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z A manager should never be one of the boys because boys occasionally play truant. Newcastle get into the pantomime spirit with Chris Hughton's sacking 2010-12-10T14:23:00Z When the police brought in truants, she looked up their records on her personal laptop and tracked down their parents’ and school phone numbers. For New York, Teachers Still in Idle Limbo 2010-12-08T03:20:00Z After studying silviculture at Tokyo University of Agriculture, Uehara became a teacher at an agricultural high school in Nagano Prefecture, where on occasion he found himself counseling truant students. Spending time in the wild may help ailments 2010-08-24T04:16:00Z Separately, the mayor announced a new task force on Thursday to address chronic absenteeism and truants, defined as students who miss school for 20 days or more in a year. Students Plan Walkout Over End of Free Transit 2010-06-11T04:22:00Z “Are ye truants and rest, or are ye in quest?” Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z Sister Dolores would drive to the house of a truant and park across the street. Manhattan?s St. Michael Academy Is Ready to Close 2010-06-11T02:00:00Z The measure would let prosecutors charge parents with misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine if their children were chronically truant. | West: California: Attention, Parents of School Truants, state Senators Have Turned Their Eyes to You 2010-05-14T00:29:00Z Chronic truants get into the Attendance Court program after their parents get a moderately threatening letter from their child’s principal offering its services. Attendance Court for New York City Truants 2010-04-27T15:05:00Z "Had the children been playing truant the mother would have been in trouble", he said. Missed chances? 2010-02-25T11:18:00Z He was intervening to get jobs for two truants rather than complying with legalities by sending them back to school. 2010-01-30T00:02:00Z If they do open the school and only a third of the kids turn up, the other 66% might be put down as absenteeism or truants, next year or the year after, by Ofsted. 2010-01-08T18:27:00Z But a little later he heard a sound and looked up sidewise to see Glory herself standing near him in the road; a materialization of the truant dreams he had been entertaining. The Law of Hemlock Mountain It is too early for definitive results, and the Attendance Court program is small, with some 45 chronically truant middle- and elementary-school participants a year. Attendance Court for New York City Truants 2010-04-27T15:05:00Z “I wish those truants would hurry back and take us to the island,” said Carrie. Zula The mere fact, however, that she ignored all mention of the truant act of the night before stung Camilla into a little show of bad temper. Capricious Caroline The song of Alphesiboeus represents a wife endeavouring to recall her truant, though still faithful, Daphnis from the city to his home. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil There was silence then for a few minutes, during which the tea-urn went on humming softly, and both women listened for the truant’s footsteps, but he did not come. The Parson O' Dumford He came upon the truant rather suddenly, round a screen at the end of a passage. "Pip" A Romance of Youth “Oh, no,” said Max, thinking that Scott had too much sense to search for a truant wife, for he would not do so himself. Zula His truant play-fellows received a long letter from their father telling them of Puck’s adventure and imagining Puck’s feelings and trials through his long wanderings.... Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine Two hours later he opened the door into his breakfast-room with the guiltiness of a truant boy. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode It was quite dark here, too dark almost to distinguish anything—the only light was a tiny, truant moonbeam that strayed in from the atelier between the porti�res of the archway. The Belovéd Traitor The boys knew this, and used to get me to take them into school if they were late or had been "kipping"—girls, too, sometimes; though they did not play truant regularly, as we did. Deep Moat Grange “I suppose those truants will be only too glad to be rid of us.” Zula Mat Byrne began to think something was wrong, and he and the two boys sallied forth to look for the truant in the village. Left on the Prairie A shepherd who would allow his flock to feed at large under his eye, merely watching his fences and folding his ewes and lambs at night, was a truant who feared the noonday sun. Rachel Ray It was too dark to see her face; but her hair, truant in the wind, swept his cheek, and close to him he could feel her heart beat against his own. The Belovéd Traitor "Shall we go and look after our truants?" she asked, suavely. Love Works Wonders A Novel You look as you had brought her in your heart, This truant Hope, to render her to me. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 It was a pleasant change from the hot prairie, as the trees shaded him from the sun, and he climbed steadily on over the stony path, hoping every minute to come on the truant. Left on the Prairie It only meant a change of "threesomes", so the girls agreed readily and departed at once, leaving the chums to act escort to the truant. The School by the Sea He commanded a brigade of militia at Baltimore the last time mother Britain attempted to chastise her truant child. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution They tramped up the hill, averting their heads occasionally as truant gusts of wind whirled snow-sprays in their eyes, chatting confidentially on less intimate subjects. Making Money "Added," suggested the Colonel with a truant twinkle, "to the admirable resoluteness of our own family." The Tempering The caravan party, except Jim and the truants, were eating luncheon when Jack and Carlos burst in upon them. The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold The two girls set out at once, and as luck would have it, turned their steps exactly in the direction where the truants had gone. The School by the Sea Hand in hand, and creeping stealthily as truant children, they came out upon the terrace. Our Admirable Betty A Romance She reached the house at last, and stole through the hall like a truant schoolgirl. The Missioner I put the others on, but would not wait for her to pick up the rolling truant, and away I went. Life on the Stage The schoolmaster whose pupils absent themselves too frequently collects his daily audience, even if he has to call in the services of the truant officer. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses The aspect which the episode bore of the rescue of a truant child from corrupting company was not assisted, certainly, by look or speech. The Furnace Let us join the company ere we are fetched like truants. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Neither asked the other where George would look for the truant. Little Miss Joy Presently the truants returned, by a different path from that which their pursuer had taken. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 Nor does the action of a truant-officer prevent the necessity of such a law, because this official only acts on the truant class of children, not on those who attend no school whatever. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Just before they reached the ranch, Jack turned a white face toward the other truants. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series "It isn't a question of likes and—" but at that moment the truants appeared to speak for themselves. A Romance in Transit Alison had been away from school on the day that the truants went to the wedding, and it was nearly a week before she returned. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days De Walden knew—what none of the three lads could surmise—how great was the danger incurred by the truants, and how slender the hope of their succeeding in carrying out their projected scheme. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa The number of "truants" in the city is not very large; they are in exceedingly remote quarters, and it would be very difficult to collect them in any single School. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them She firmly believed that one of them had helped the truant to escape, yet they had not stirred from before her eyes, in the time when the runaway girl threw her off the scent. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series "I shall stay right here and keep an eye on these truants," she declared, with great severity. A Romance in Transit "You're playing truants, I'm afraid!" said Jenny, but with no air of rebuke. The Great Miss Driver There were no informing signs about the place, so Miner decided that the truant must now merely be resting on his journey. The Loves of Ambrose The Massachusetts system of "Truant-schools"—that is, Schools to which truant officers could send children habitually truant—does not seem so applicable to New York. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them The result was Orlandino, a tale for children, relating the fortunes and reformation of a graceless truant. Maria Edgeworth Notice the importance of the work of the truant officer. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Once or twice she played truant from the Sunday School. The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith With a quick movement, seeing that the truant was completely hidden, he set his carpet-bag up on his lap, and, opening it, began rummaging among its contents. The Loves of Ambrose They were trapped like two naughty children who had been caught playing truant from school. John Marsh's Millions "Nonsense," I answered, as I tightened the gloves round her feet and tucked her up with the rug that had kindly played truant. Fragments of an Autobiography |
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