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Is Jail Time the Answer to Truancy?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Dec 7th 2008 10:00AM

A Florida mother was arrested recently not for something she did, but for something she didn't do. She didn't make sure that her ninth-grade daughter went to school every day. After the girl racked up 59 unexcused absences, the Alachua County's ...
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School skippers forced to wear tracking bracelets

by Sandy Maple, Posted Aug 25th 2008 9:00AM

Certain students in San Antonio, Texas schools will soon find it a lot harder to get away with skipping school. A new program designed to crack down on truancy will allow the Bexar County courts to fit habitual school-skippers with ankle bracelets ...
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New reason to go to school -- the free car

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Dec 5th 2006 8:27AM

I was so far away from any possibility of getting any attendance awards that I honestly have no clue what the prizes were for perfect attendance when I was in school. If it had been a car or truck, however, I think I would have noticed. That's ...
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