What are some of the punishments for truancy?

What are some of the punishments for truancy?

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The punishments for truancy varies from district to district, state to state. In general, they are progressive. Some punishments involve after-school detention. If you miss five hours, for example, in a school day it could be five hours of after-school detention. In some districts you have a Saturday school, where you attend Saturday school and make up the work that you missed during the week. Plus, if there was another infraction in your truancy, where you went with another group of kids, there might be some counsellors there to re-educate you on how to say no, and that sort of thing. So it varies in terms of the consequences.