He was a truant student and the mullah (teacher) often had to seek him out in the streets, drag him to school, and punish him.

Further, about half the number of truant students were returned to school as were during the same period the previous year, and narcotics search warrants decreased 34 percent.

Father met her as she was chasing a truant student down the street.

In part, the two high-level administrators said, the attendance records were sometimes inadvertently inflated, resulting from a lackadaisical approach to tracking truant and missing students.

Most schools that have a nearby police station have police vehicles monitoring the areas around the school grounds to look for truant students.

Under the measure, parents of truant students (who are absent more than once a week) will receive smaller welfare payments.

The property however remained in use by the County as a textbook storage facility and by truant students looking for a quick smokesess.

Schools may pushout truant students, who formally enroll in classes, but then refuse to attend.

Despite continuing efforts to bring in truant students, attendance fell further this week in New York City's summer school program.

I'm reading the letter when one of my chronically truant students walks in the door and sits down on a desk.