What is "truancy"?

What is "truancy"?

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Truancy is a term that's used by the school system to define a certain time that the youngster has not attended school and that time has not been authorized by the parent or by the school system. So a parent, for example, that takes a youngster on vacation and informs the school is not necessarily truant. However, a youngster that leaves the school, let's say mom drops him off at 8: o'clock at the beginning does not the child does not enter the school, goes to a friends house without permission then comes back to the school at the end and gets picked up by mom at the end of the day that youngster is truant; it's an unauthorized absence.