0 past simple and past participle of truant --
1 Children who truant are regularly absent from school, usually while pretending to their parents that they have gone to school: --
It is a way of getting pupils who have truanted up to speed again so that they are level with their colleagues who attend regular schools.
The chapter that refers to a joined-up problem says that nearly half of all school-age offenders have been excluded from school, and that a quarter truanted significantly.
They considered what they were being taught as irrelevant and uninteresting and in many areas a high proportion of these pupils truanted or absented themselves from classes.
Some of them cannot read or write, and many of them have truanted from school.
At school, this typical young man truanted regularly.
Eleven per cent will be those at risk who have truanted, and so on, certainly needing advice but not from a specialist careers adviser.
At present the children's hearings deal with children who have truanted.
They tend to have truanted at school and as a result are poorly educated and trained.
