It left lasting results upon the administration of the truancy law as well as the cooperation of volunteer bodies.
This investigation preceded a most interesting conference on truancy held under a committee of which I was a member from the Chicago Board of Education.
I cannot even tell of his truancy there, for her heart's wrapped up in the youth.
I'm keeping it from Miss Campbell as long as I can, but I'll be bound to tell her of your truancy this time.
Drug use is closely tied to truancy and dropping out of school.
About one-fifth of heavy users skipped 3 or more schooldays a month, more than six times the truancyrate of nonusers.
This was a petition that had been brought before the court by the attendance bureau relating to this boy, Lee Harvey Oswald, because of his truancy from school.
No retardation in school subjects could be found in spite of his truancyfrom school.
You mentioned before that his particular type of truancy was different from the kind of truancy that you many times run into where the kids will just take off and go fishing or just go out---- Mr. CARRO.
More seriously, it is even a drastic action to place a boy away who comes in for truancy, because truancy is itself a passive delinquent act.
In other words, this child had a potential for explosive, aggressive, assaultive acting out which was rather unusual to find in a child who was sent to Youth House on such a mild charge as truancy from school.
This 13 year old, well-built, well-nourished boy was remanded to Youth House for the first time on charge of truancy from school and of being beyond the control of his mother as far as school attendance is concerned.
We gave a seminar on this boy in which we discussed him, because he came to us on a charge of truancy from school, and yet when I examined him, I found him to have definite traits of dangerousness.
As Lieutenant Forbes watched the surge of automobiles from the superior height of a motor-bus it amused him to see how little people lose of the childhood spirit of truancy and adventure.
The thought of Persis came to him now with the charm of all three--honey, truancy to duty, and danger.
Could my father have realized what that initial truancy was to lead to I should probably have received one of his whippings, but fortunately he was in a mood to consider it humorously.
The circumstances of the truancy and imprisonment were as follows: My parents were in the neighboring city for the day, and I had been left at home with the nurse.
Ostensibly Van was looking over business letters, but there was a trace of wander-lust in the eyes that strayed off with dreamy truancy beyond the tree-tops.
This condition of affairs, coupled with the supervision of unseeing and unsympathetic teachers, has sometimes led even to truancy on the part of gifted children.
However, in this day and age Mr. Rockefeller would have been arrested on the double charge of truancy and violation of the child-labor law, and would have had no savings whatsoever at sixteen years of age.
A benign form of truancy that led him to the public library and to chess tournaments was his way out of his predicament.
But his inexplicable truancy and his refusal to do the required work in physical education baffled the educational authorities.
Treatment, direct, of the lying itself Treatment given in special cases Truancy Verbal fluency related to pathological lying Verbalists, mentally defective Williams, S.
An Italian man tells the story of a woman he knew who whipped her boy for truancyand then went to consult the teacher.
Abbott and Breckinridge, Truancy and Nonattendance in the Chicago Schools, chap.
Very often the first waywardness of a child is in truancy from school, which, if it cannot be handled by the teacher, is turned over to the local truant officer.
We had Sunday dinner, and in the course of the conversation my mother informed me that Lee was having a truancy problem and that the school officials had suggested that he might need psychiatric aid to combat his truancy problem.
Did you get the impression from anything she said to you that this truancy or this lack of control problem had been something that had suddenly arisen or---- Mr. PIC.
I have my own idea of how this truancy question is going to be solved.
The penalty for persistent truancy was attendance at a state reformatory school.
We ought not to permit hunger to tempt a boy to steal, nor encourage truancy by making him sit still too long.
With Oscar, the case was different, and he did not see exactly how his truancy was to be concealed from his parents and teachers.
School life was characterized throughout by truancy and disobedience and finally terminated in expulsion.
He knew himself to be a weak man, except in the counting-house; he knew it, and must stifle his jealousy of Azariah, who had forgiven Joseph his truancy and was the only one that knew of the excursion into Tiberias.
But a whole day's absence was something more than any truancyhe had ever indulged in before, and the only reason he could give for it would be the inacceptable one that the cockers had bidden a demon take possession of him.
Time after time the court had overlooked his truancy and misdoings, but James had taken the pitcher once too often to the well, and the open doors of the State Reform School stared him grimly in the face.
The people with whom James was boarding grew tired of his continued truancy and he was placed on a farm near Boston.
Footnote 9: Truancy as Related to the Migrating Instinct, by L.
Truancy is augmented, too, just in proportion as legitimate and interesting physical exercise is denied.
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