0 a child who is regularly absent from school without permission: --
1 Children who truant are regularly absent from school, usually while pretending to their parents that they have gone to school: --
2 someone who is absent from school without permission --
They tend to have truanted at school and as a result are poorly educated and trained.
Children who have been excluded or who are truanting intimidate children when they leave school.
I have been told of a case involving a friend of mine whose daughter persistently truanted from a very reputable school.
I cannot believe that it will be in the interests of the truants themselves that their parents run the risk of serving time in prison.
Often they have never had their basic skills addressed professionally; they may have truanted from school or opted out of education.
I asked the person in charge of the centre how many truants there were.
In the built-up areas the problem is the congregation of pigeons which are either truants from captivity or their progeny.
Truants are people who have all the broad social difficulties and truancy is related to juvenile delinquency, vandalism and other such behaviour.
