Truancy

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Resources by the Prosecuting Attorney including information about legal issues and reasons to stay in school.

http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty/truancy

Provides an overview of the consequences of missing school.

http://www.scusd.edu/child_welfare/truancy.htm

Considers truancy as an outcome of bullying at school. Includes links to statistics and excerpts from news reports.

http://www.bullyonline.org/schoolbully/truancy.htm

An article in which teenagers from the North of England give their opinions on truancy.

http://www.childrens-express.org/dynamic/public/junior_jury_truancy_050702.htm

Includes a film in which Emma Coleman, a seventeen year old, tells her true story.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/altogether/thomas_danby/truancy.shtml

Information about why young people might want to miss school and the consequences of truancy.

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/f/family/problems_pressures/truancy.html

Discusses the problems that a teenager might face at school and suggests ways of facing these difficulties and avoiding truancy.

http://www.youngminds.org.uk/education/y0.php

An article written for teenagers about the causes and effects of truancy. Includes information about the New Start initiative.

http://www.youthinformation.com/infopage.asp?snid=462

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