What is truancy?

According to (San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District, 2018): “Student absences that fall into any of the following categories shall be classified as a truant and reported to the attendance supervisor or designee:
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  • Students absent without a valid excuse (unexcused absence) for three full school days in one school year.
  • Students tardy or absent in excess of any 30-minute period during a school day on any three or occasions in one school year without a valid excuse.
  • Students with excessive excused absences. 
  • Any combination of reasons listed above.
  • Truancy as we learned in this unit is the act of not going to school but with no validated justification. Being absent repetitively does not mean you are a truant student, because you can have a very good reason to being absent.

The student who commits truancy is called "truant". As an example, we can mention when trouble kids miss school to hang out with their friends, and their parents believe they are studying in the school under their teachers and guidance, another case of truancy is when parents left the kids in the school but they instead of going inside, kids go back home or hang around and do anything else instead of what they must be doing. 
Also, we can mention that students from public institutions are more tending to be truants, as a consequence of teachers not caring if they go or not to class as they should, and unfortunately in most of the cases parents are not aware of how their teens behave when they are not around them or what are they used to do. Teenagers can be really good actors.

Bibliography:
  • Education Trends and Issues - Truancy and Achievement. (2018). Retrieved from https://educationtrendsandissues.wikispaces.com/
  • Truancy+and+AchievementTruancy - Parentchannel.tv. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=b5PLPbLd7pc
  • SAN LORENZO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (2018) Retrieved from http://www.slvusd.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/what_is_truancy_111.pdf
  • Dreamstime.com. (2018). Student-truant stock photo. Image of classes, school - 11516538. [online] Available at: https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-student-truant-image11516538 [Accessed 21 Jun. 2018].

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