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Liston's failure to expel truant council members would place him in direct violation of section 22.5 of the by laws, according to Council parliamentarian David A. Smith...
...zither, won the gold, beating Moe and Aamodt, who captured the bronze. The French were despondent when their favorites failed to garner medals, and L'Equipe, the national sports daily, struck back by calling Moe -- who had been expelled from teams as an adolescent for smoking marijuana -- a "little truant" and describing Roffe-Steinrotter as looking like "an insomniac squirrel." But French skier Florence Masnada was more gracious. "The Americans have no complexes," she said admiringly. "They just throw themselves down the slope without asking any questions...
...Naked, Vote Naked," say the slogans in favor of Question Three. And we agree. We citizens recycle and it's high time truant businesses did their share...
Knighton never had much chance of being rescued, even if someone had bothered to try. By the time he entered sixth grade, he had attended seven schools. Frank Scalise, director of guidance counseling at Deerfield Beach Middle School, said Knighton came to class only 12 days that year. Truant officers were dispatched to find him, but the family had no address. "He wasn't in school long enough for anybody to get next to him, help him or counsel him," says Scalise. "Then he dropped out, and we never saw him again...
Others are less sanguine. A 1990 audit by the state legislature found that 84% of the appeals made by truant teens were overturned because of errors in records kept by the schools or the welfare agency. Furthermore, the Employment and Training Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found that in Milwaukee County less than 30% of the kids whose families had welfare payments docked for poor attendance were actually in school two months after being sanctioned. Last summer U.S. District Court Judge Terence Evans ordered that Learnfare be suspended in Milwaukee. "Recipients," he wrote, "should not be made homeless...