
Know All About Truancy
Programs that promote consistent attendance by addressing the risk factors that lead to truancy can also improve academic achievement while reducing problem behaviors, including substance abuse and delinquency.
Is Your Child Playing Truant From School?
Truancy means missing school on a regular basis for no good reason. It is also sometimes called ‘unauthorised absence’. By law, all children who are registered at school must attend regularly...
Understanding Truancy: Why Won't They Go To School?
There are three chief categories of inputs in a child's life, their own circumstances and self-image, their relationship with their parents, and the characteristics of their school. Each contributes to the chance a given child will stay absent fro...
Absence From School: Its Causes And Effects
The issue of school attendance is currently the focus of intense activity in schools. Attendance is normally recorded in the attendance registers daily maintained in schools but in many cases, it is not done systematically and regularly.
How To Solve The Problem Of Truancy?
Philippa James, a Ph.D. researcher at Cardiff University's school of social sciences, thinks she knows why: "The more schools improve methods of detection, the more children work out better methods of deception."
Teenager Truancy, Skipping Or Wagging School
Your child might miss a day of school every now and then - that’s pretty normal. But if it happens a lot, you could be looking at or truancy or ‘school refusal’. By supporting your child to attend school regularly and working on any concerns toget...
Tackling Teen Truancy
Every day, hundreds of thousands of students across the United States are absent from school without a legitimate excuse. Every year, cities, states, and school districts across the country announce new initiatives designed to entice, counsel, thr...
Truancy : Recommendations For Prevention And Intervention
Since truancy may occur for various reasons, it is important to understand why a particular student is not attending school. Interventions should be collaborative and include the student, family, school, community and law enforcement, when necessa...