| Ultimately, it is up to parents and teachers to ensure children do not play truant. |
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| But only pupils who meet academic targets and do not play truant will get tickets. |
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| School chiefs in Swindon have been told to slap fines on parents or even put them in jail if their children play truant from school. |
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| When children play truant from a grammar, the school hauls them in and puts a stop to it. |
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| There are fears that other parents could be tagged if they allow their children to persistently play truant from school. |
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| A common problem at government schools is that it is the teachers who play truant. |
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| Many Londoners took the opportunity to play truant from their responsibilities. |
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| Lear's celebrated limericks demonstrate the antic disposition of a society that loved to play truant from its sober self. |
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| A police spokesman said he was angry over being expelled from school after forging a doctor's note as an excuse to stay off school and play truant. |
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| They play truant, breaking into local houses and making off with personal possessions — valuables, invaluables, junk. |
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| Those poor people are like silly children who play truant, who do not attend classes, who search for escape. |
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| Athy pupils will no longer be able to play truant and hope to get away with it, following the introduction of Ireland's first high tech electronic register. |
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| The report also reveals police and education officers were often the target of verbal abuse from the parents who were caught allowing their children to play truant. |
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| Each school-day a quarter of Indian teachers play truant. |
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| He began to play truant and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. |
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| The plain fact is, recognized since time immemorial but increasingly disregarded, that every person should play truant from work and affairs at least one day a week. |
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| 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. |
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| This situation becomes all the more glaring when one considers the fact that in many of the poorer countries in Asia, a large proportion of children play truant. |
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| They are more likely to play truant and run away from home. |
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