Word: truants
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...danger of hooky all but evaporates too, since a truant officer sees to it that students either stay at school or attend sacred studies. A truant officer's badge is more effective than a parental pronunciamento any day. Released time is thus a great aid to a church group in getting future parishioners to attend classes that they otherwise would have ignored. If not, why would America's churches fight so stubbornly for released time programs...
Though he is a teacher at heart, Don Herbert hates the dry stuffiness of a classroom as much as any truant schoolboy. On Mr. Wizard, his popular science show for kids (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he uses brief, ad lib comment instead of hectoring lectures, everyday objects like balloons and tumblers instead of beakers and fractionating columns, and he would rather conduct his experiments with a potato or a spinning top than with test tubes and Bunsen burners...
There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...
...every boy's life-Jerry, who once had to be talked out of blowing up the Sabers with a hand grenade; Pluck, who smoked reefers ("When you are high you can look across the way, which is littered with garbage cans, and everything looks fine"); and Wilfred the truant ("If I could go regular-like for a week, then I'd go all the time, but I just can't go that week...
...four days last week, up to 20,000 of New York City's 212,000 high-school students deserted their classrooms for an unseemly orgy of picketing, riotous parading, catcalling and general defiance of the school board, Mayor O'Dwyer, and several hundred New York cops and truant officers. The only civic group that could conceivably have been pleased by all this were the demonstrators' teachers. And, in the circumstances, they were keeping their voices down...