Truancy

Truancy is an absence without permission.

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It is mostly used to describe an unexcused absence from compulsory schooling. Beyond the effect missed schooling may have on the student's academic record, chronic truancy can indicate problems with the student, the education system, or both. Truancy is commonly associated with other juvenile delinquency. In some countries, playing truant has severe consequences including high penalty fees.

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Very often, social problems are more common factors in becoming a truant than particularly school-related factors. Truancy is significantly more common among minorities, lower-class families, dysfunctional families and orphans. Truancy can be found in all classes, showing a high percentage of truants among pupils of public secondary and comprehensive schools.

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However, in addition to school-skipping students, there has been a small amount of radical support for truancy.

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Student: Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb "stŭdērĕ", which means "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject. Also known as a disciple in the sense of a religious area of study,...

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