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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About half in each case were categorised by their headteachers as casual or persistent truants.
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He dropped out of the eighth grade, but before that he was a truant of long standing.
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Home visiting is an expensive but helpful alternative for persistent truants.
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Nadine had rung Matthew several times recently-and always at school-to say that Rory was playing truant .
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Or had the truants simply outgrown school, but were ready for the world of work?
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Persistent truants, those truanting for weeks at a time, were seen as posing intractable problems for schools.
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The truants are questioned by education officers, and often their parents too.
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They are, according to recent research, bringing up the next generation of offenders, truants, divorcees and generally inadequate people.