truancy
Unauthorized school absence
Truancy is unauthorized absence from school.
A student who skips class without permission commits truancy; repeated offenses may bring legal consequences for the student or parents.
The word extends to any habitual shirking of duty: His truancy from team meetings annoyed his coworkers.
Habitual failure to attend
- hookyUnauthorized school absence
- skippingRhythmic hopping locomotion
- nonattendanceFailure to appear
- AWOLAbsent without permission
bunking · cutting · ditching · unexcused · no-show · playing hooky · shirking · malingering
Absence of constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- escapeFlight from captivity
- releaseTo let go
unshackled · getaway · break · fleeing · dodging · evading · avoidance · playing hooky
Young person or animal
- offenderOne who breaks rules
- misconductImproper professional behavior
- probationSupervised trial period
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
detention · incorrigible · correctional · wayward · recidivism · dropout · suspended · expelled
Defiance of established power
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- nonconformityRejection of prevailing norms
disobedience · recalcitrance · unruliness · contumacy · disregard · obstinacy · waywardness · disorderliness
Lacking sense of duty
- negligentFailing in due care
- carelessInattentive, prone to mistakes
- disengagedNot participating or invested
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
indifferent · dereliction · lax · oversight · unsupervised · uninvolved · parental · accountability
absenteeism
Habitual failure to attend
- hookyUnauthorized school absence
- skippingRhythmic hopping locomotion
- nonattendanceFailure to appear
AWOL · bunking · cutting · ditching · unexcused · no-show · playing hooky · shirking · malingering · unauthorized
freedom
Absence of constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- escapeFlight from captivity
release · unshackled · getaway · break · fleeing · dodging · evading · avoidance · playing hooky · cutting loose
juvenile
Young person or animal
- offenderOne who breaks rules
- misconductImproper professional behavior
- probationSupervised trial period
court · detention · incorrigible · correctional · wayward · recidivism · dropout · suspended · expelled · at-risk
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
nonconformity · disobedience · recalcitrance · unruliness · contumacy · disregard · obstinacy · waywardness · disorderliness · acting out
irresponsible
Lacking sense of duty
- negligentFailing in due care
- carelessInattentive, prone to mistakes
- disengagedNot participating or invested
apathetic · indifferent · dereliction · lax · oversight · unsupervised · uninvolved · parental · accountability · compulsory
- Infractionsjaywalking, littering, loitering, speeding, trespassing
- school lawcompulsory education, school attendance, FERPA, compulsory attendance, student rights
- status offensescurfew violation, underage drinking, incorrigibility, breaking curfew, minor in possession
- truancyskipping class, skipping school, cutting class, cutting school, playing hooky
- educational failuresdropout, illiteracy, innumeracy, failing grades, dropout rates
- schoolingelementary school, school, middle school, high school, primary schools
truancyattendance
Record of who's present
presence · attending · perfect attendance · showing up · enrollment
truancyperfect attendance
Never missing a day
compliance · diligence · obedience · dutifulness · conformity
- playing truant
- play truantSkip school unauthorized
- truant officerEnforces compulsory school attendance
- truancy officerEnforces compulsory school attendance
- truancy lawsStatutes mandating school presence