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Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures.
Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education. However, the American public education attendance policy, specifically Fayette County’s, creates disparate policies for neurodivergent and ...
Truancy Intervention Project, Inc. (TIP) is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization serving children ages 5 to 15 declared truant in the Atlanta City and Fulton County public school systems. Founded in 1991 TIP, previously named Kids in Need of Dreams, Inc. (KIND) , provides positive intervention services to children reported as truant .
“Some people lost their purpose for being at school,” one school district official told lawmakers. Absences, truancy still rising in Kentucky schools after COVID pandemic; lawmakers concerned ...
More than a quarter of Bibb Schools students were chronically absent last school year, according to attendance data obtained by The Macon Newsroom
The assessment aims to (1) confirm that the behavior represents school refusal as opposed to truancy or legitimate absence, (2) evaluate the extent and severity of absenteeism, (3) the type(s) and severity of emotional distress, (4) obtain information regarding the child, family, school, and community factors that may be contributing to the ...
School discipline relates to actions taken by teachers or school organizations toward students when their behavior disrupts the ongoing educational activity or breaks a rule created by the school. Discipline can guide the children's behavior or set limits to help them learn to take better care of themselves, other people and the world around them.
Aug. 9—August is National Truancy Prevention Month, and local school resource officers say the rising problem is caused by a variety of factors. Officer Marcus Sams, director of operations for ...