Word: truants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total number who will register is uncertain, however, there is no doubt that about 750 financially-truant students will come face-to-face with the "infamous red dot," Stephen W. Homer, director of student receivables, said yesterday...
...first to find the finish line at Churchill Downs and, back home in Maryland, he basked last week in long overdue adulation. Neighbors decorated their houses with signs proclaiming WELCOME HOME, CHAMP! Later this week, his old high school will celebrate Ron Franklin Day, rare recognition for a truant who dropped out of school during his junior year...
This month a Massachusetts judge upheld the right of parents "to preserve home education" under that state's laws. But many parents of stay-at-homes find themselves enmeshed in legal controversies with local truant officers. Laws on school attendance vary widely from state to state; some permit children to enroll in school as late as age eight (Arizona) and to leave as early as age 14 (Massachusetts). In addition, some parents are asked to prove they are qualified?in some cases, professionally certifiable as teachers?before a local judge or school board...
...decade before his death in 1953 at 55, the boozing increased and the jobs evaporated. His wife Sara would drive around after lunch, searching for his car in the parking lots of Beverly Hills restaurants; when she found it, she would go in and march him away like a truant. He composed a form letter of apology for hostesses of dinner parties he had disgraced...
Violence was ever ready to erupt in Lee. At nine, he lunged at his half brother with a butcher knife-an attack that their mother dismissed as one of Lee's "little scuffles." A New York City social worker, who interviewed Lee when he was a truant of 13, reported that he had fantasies of being powerful and killing people. Before he turned 16 he confided to a friend that he would like to kill President Eisenhower "because he was exploiting the working class." After Lee shot at and very nearly killed General Walker, Marina became convinced that...