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Some 315 of the 461 had an identified reason for such regular absenteeism, such as a medical illness, a bout of ill-health or persistent truanting, and three of the 315 had already been diagnosed as having CFS.

Study warns of higher ME rates among pupils 2011

Scott's picture centres on a 16-year-old schoolboy (played by the director's now almost equally famous brother, Tony) truanting from school for a lyrical cycle ride around the dockland area of the film-maker's native north-east England.

Britain's best film directors show some early promise Philip French 2010

The majority of my students were kids who had either been excluded from school because of disruptive behaviour, or who had dropped out of the school system of their own volition and spent several years truanting before landing in my class.

2010 July « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010

The majority of my students were kids who had either been excluded from school because of disruptive behaviour, or who had dropped out of the school system of their own volition and spent several years truanting before landing in my class.

Guest post 19 – Sue Lyon-Jones on teaching the unteachable « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010

The media blame all the obvious socio-economic factors such as boredom, binge-drinking, peer pressure, lack of education, truanting, the destruction of the nuclear family, and the absence of father figures, but these girl gang members also appear to have a pathetic underlying yearning to belong.

The ‘bovver birds’ are back 2009

Where there is no proper home life, truanting from school also becomes a problem - the street becomes the children's home and the place wehere bonds arte forged and idenmtity affirmed.

auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007

Where there is no proper home life, truanting from school also becomes a problem - the street becomes the children's home and the place wehere bonds arte forged and idenmtity affirmed.

Archive 2007-01-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

'What on earth,' I asked her, 'were you truanting from?'

Rumpole and the Reign of Terror Mortimer, John 2006

I have told her many times that she doesn't understand how vulnerable young girls are, and when the truanting began last term I felt I had no option but to take a sterner line.

Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003

He was astonished to discover that two schoolgirls were regularly truanting in Grace's house.

Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003