truancy

Converse of object

• condone: These measures were seen as indirectly reducing condoned truancy.
• bully: There isn't the bullying, truancy or negative behavior you can find at other schools.
• tackle: The power is intended to operate within a joint local approach to tackling truancy.
• combat: Strategies to tackle truancy: Choices Beliefs about the causes may influence the choice of strategies to combat truancy.
• reduce: The aim was for the LEA to be directly involved with some schools to reduce truancy.
• cut: They promised in 1998 to cut truancy by a third.

Adjective modifier

• persistent: He states that in the case of persistent truancy, it is the system which is at fault, not the pupil.
• primary: Primary post-registration truancy is almost non-existent for various reasons.

Modifies a noun

• sweep: Over 900 truancy sweeps stopping more than 12,000 pupils in May alone.
• patrol: This is the first time that truancy patrols have been used in Norfolk.
• rate: Its truancy rate - at 2.8 % - is more than twice the national average of 1.2 % .
• initiative: Bexley Council would ask all children and adults to support the truancy initiatives by giving the details required.
• officer: His mother, Claire, assailed by truancy officers, begged him to go to school.
• target: The truancy target has now been revised downwards having been missed.

Noun used with modifier

• school: What about the Prime Minister's promise to cut school truancy by a third?
• cut: Although education action zones have helped primary schools cut truancy, they have not had a significant impact on the secondary sector.
• post-registration: Primary post-registration truancy is almost non-existent for various reasons.

Possessives

• child: It is a serious problem; too many parents actively collude and are involved in their children's truancy.

Preposition: in

• school: With regard to truancy in schools, we have improved investment in the education system.

Preposition: from

• school: All absences related to anti-war demonstrations will therefore be recorded as truancy from school.