0 present participle of truant
1 Children who truant are regularly absent from school, usually while pretending to their parents that they have gone to school:
Euphemistically termed 'youth in the mist', these include youth who started truanting at a young age and who frequently changed school.
Many prisoners have experienced social exclusion including running away from home as a child, truanting and exclusion from school, poor numeracy and reading skills, unemployment, and homelessness.
The percentage of time missed due to truancy is decreasing, and children are truanting for shorter periods.
Children who have been excluded or who are truanting intimidate children when they leave school.
Truanting inevitably leads to the possibility of crime.
The report highlights the fact that by the age of 11 years many such young people are truanting.
The causes of truancy and the things that people do when they are truanting cover much more than employment.
Unquestionably, if a child is truanting—especially if he or she is then permanently excluded from school—there is a very high risk of that child offending.
