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    This document discusses school truancy and its causes and impacts. It defines truancy as being absent from school without permission. The document notes that truancy is a concern because juvenile arrests in Kent, Ohio in 2003 included 47 curfew violations and 44 prohibitions, indicating criminal behaviors associated with being absent from school. Factors that can lead to truancy include issues like bullying, problematic families, bad influences, substance abuse, and gang activity. Truancy has negative consequences as it interrupts the teaching and learning process in school and can influence negative behaviors that continue into adulthood. Some proposed solutions to reduce truancy include giving students moral support, building positive teacher-student relationships, implementing home education programs, and

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    School Truancy: Group Members

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    This document discusses school truancy and its causes and impacts. It defines truancy as being absent from school without permission. The document notes that truancy is a concern because juvenile arrests in Kent, Ohio in 2003 included 47 curfew violations and 44 prohibitions, indicating criminal behaviors associated with being absent from school. Factors that can lead to truancy include issues like bullying, problematic families, bad influences, substance abuse, and gang activity. Truancy has negative consequences as it interrupts the teaching and learning process in school and can influence negative behaviors that continue into adulthood. Some proposed solutions to reduce truancy include giving students moral support, building positive teacher-student relationships, implementing home education programs, and

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    School Truancy

    Group members;
    Rashdan Syahmi Mohd Saidi
    Mohammad Faris Ismail
    Lau Wei Kin
    Karthigesh A/L Panir Chelvan
    Nur Atikah Shahirah Roslan

    Definition(s): (truancy)
    Webster The

    act or condition of being


    absent without permission

    Why are we concerned?


    JUVENILE ARRESTS IN KENT - 2003

    Abduction
    1
    Assault
    8
    Assault on a Police Officer 1
    Carrying a Concealed
    Weapon
    1
    Certain Acts Prohibited 2
    Criminal Mischief 3
    Criminal Trespass
    12
    Curfew
    47
    Disorderly Conduct
    12
    Domestic Violence 4
    Flee & Elude
    1
    Give False Information to a
    Police Officer
    1
    Housed for Liquor Control 1
    Inducing Panic
    1
    Littering
    3

    Menacing
    2
    Obstruct Official Business 10
    Possess Criminal Tools 2
    Possess Drug Paraph. 7
    Possess Marijuana 9
    Prohibitions
    44
    Receiving Stolen Property 4
    Resisting Arrest
    6
    Runaway
    10
    Sexual Imposition 1
    Theft
    4
    Trafficking in Marijuana 1
    Unruly
    7
    Warrant- JDC
    2
    Warrant-Akron PD 1
    Warrant-PCSO
    2

    http://www.kentohio.org/dep/2003-report.pdf

    Factors
    Intelligence

    Bullying

    Come from
    problematic
    families

    Bad influence

    Negative
    relationship
    between teachers
    and students

    Substance abuse

    Gang activity

    Involvement in
    criminal activities

    Negative consequences on
    behavior in adults

    Interrupt teaching and


    learning process in school

    Impact

    Solutions to reduce
    Give moral support

    Build positive
    relationships

    Pay fine to parents


    that do not care

    Create a progressive
    classroom
    environment

    Home education

    Teachers need to pay


    attention to struggling
    students

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