Word: truant
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...only 15 years old, but he hasn't been in school since 1980. He has been on the street since last spring, when he ran away from home so the truant officer couldn't find him. He sleeps in door ways, and since he tends to frequent a couple of neighborhoods, the residents all recognize him. Sometimes they call his mother, who has given out her phone number for just that reason. She finds him and brings him home again. He never gives her any trouble. But the situation in not improving, and sooner or later he is likely...
...handle these kids either. The agencies just let them go. They don't come in for appointments, you have to keep after them all the time, and no service agency is going to go to someone's house at 7:00 in the morning and personally take a truant child to school...
...methodical at the end of the day as he is at the beginning, Rolland during the past two weeks left his office each evening promptly at 5:30. Then, after having dinner with his wife, who is a truant officer for a local school in New Jersey, and studying some investment reports, he sat down and read a few pages of Robert Ludlum's bestseller The Parsifal Mosaic. After a day of million-dollar dealings, the world of double agents and Eastern European intrigue is a good escape...
Barry Porter, 14, of San Francisco, is a computer-age truant, so attached to the machine that he often skips school, rarely reads anything other than computer manuals and hangs out with his pals in a Market Street computer store, often plotting some new electronic scam. Barry (not his real name) currently boasts an illicit library of about 1,000 pirated (i.e., illegally copied) programs worth about $50,000 at retail prices, including such software gems as VisiCalc, the popular business management and planning program. Before security was tightened up, he regularly plugged his computer into such distant databanks...
...dreams of hitting the numbers big so that he can run away with his popsy (Ellen March). The domineering mother Enid (Beatrice Arthur) has a tongue with the sting of a killer bee. The 17-year-old son Paul (Brian Backer) has a sky-high IQ and plays truant to go to magic shows. Abysmally lonely, he retreats to his room to polish his own legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid wheedles him into auditioning Paul. Terrified, the boy flubs a few tricks...