The judge, chief of police, school inspector and truant officer were all against the school.
He captures the nephews and drives them to the schoolhouse in his truant officer van.
In 1850, most of the dread was harbored by school-aged children, as he was also an appointed truant officer.
In 1999, he supported a proposal to rehire the city's truant officers.
Once he discovered tennis, he lost interest in school and began a troubled adolescence in which he was occasionally pursued by truant officers and policemen.
