| It went on like that for a few months until it got to the point where we were truanting from school every day and smoking weed. |
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| We will take action against those who are persistently truanting or who are late for school. |
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| He said that his dad had kicked him out because he'd been truanting and hanging around with a gang of boys, getting into trouble. |
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| We will not be coming in with a hard approach, but want to work with parents to stop truanting. |
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| She soon began truanting and going missing for increasingly long periods of time. |
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| Julie is still trying to cope with her truanting, drug-taking son and she doesn't know where to turn to find help. |
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| Far from truanting because they are stupid, it turns out many truant because they are clever. |
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| For a few fleeting seconds, she considered truanting, but common sense triumphed over her emotions. |
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| The majority of these parents knew of the absence but about 20 pupils were found to be truanting. |
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| In Derby at least 10 percent of Aboriginal children are truanting each day and rates of school completion are low. |
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| Parents of truanting children are also identified and approached through traditional extended family and kinship networks. |
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| He rebelled against the stricter existence he found after she'd gone, by running away and truanting. |
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| During this summer's World Cup, big screen televisions were set up in the city's classrooms in an attempt to stop children truanting to watch football matches. |
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| Unfortunately, however, a surprisingly large number of parents are not only already aware that their children are truanting, they actively condone it. |
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| An increasing number of parents are being taken to court because their children are truanting from school. |
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| Children's naughtiness was of the Just William level of scrumping and truanting, while adult characters were often the villains and retribution on them was never violent. |
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| Last year, a total of 788 children were stopped for truanting in the borough. |
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| Schools will be encouraged to introduce parenting contracts on matters like attending parents' evenings, preventing absenteeism and truanting, acceptable behaviour and speaking Dutch in school. |
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| Of the 41 stopped five were found to be truanting from school, the others had genuine reason to be off with an authorised absence. |
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| Staff put Amy Owen, 14, in the truanting register after she refused to wear a headscarf and her mum would not let her go. |
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| Becky said it took her around half a year to catch up on all of the work she had missed as a result of truanting. |
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| Some local councils also have teams to tackle truanting. |
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| The truanting crackdown is the biggest ever by a police force in Scotland. |
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| Being out of school either truanting, on holiday or sick for more than five weeks a year cut a pupil's chances of getting one good GCSE at grade C or better by 30 per cent. |
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| We haven't issued fixed penalty notices yet, but we are strong advocates of parenting orders and of the hard work teachers do to stop youngster truanting. |
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