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Truancy
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Includes a film in which Emma Coleman, a seventeen year old, tells her true story.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/altogether/thomas_danby/truancy.shtml
Provides an overview of the consequences of missing school.
http://www.scusd.edu/child_welfare/truancy.htm
An article in which teenagers from the North of England give their opinions on truancy.
http://www.childrens-express.org...c/junior_jury_truancy_050702.htm
Resources by the Prosecuting Attorney including information about legal issues and reasons to stay in school.
http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty/truancy/
Considers truancy as an outcome of bullying at school. Includes links to statistics and excerpts from news reports.
http://www.bullyonline.org/schoolbully/truancy.htm
Discusses the problems that a teenager might face at school and suggests ways of facing these difficulties and avoiding truancy.
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/education/y0.php
Information about why young people might want to miss school and the consequences of truancy.
http://www.channel4.com/health/m.../problems_pressures/truancy.html