Have they come to take you home at last, like a truant child?

Tracking down truant children is not the only factor in keeping them in school.

A device we had for an occasional truant child who dodged his weekly visit to the library.

Lowers welfare benefits for parents with persistently truant children in grades one through six in selected school districts.

It would also impose penalties on welfare recipients who use drugs, violate parole, have truant children or fail to participate in work programs.

There he must deal with vast cultural differences and teach chronically truant children who only respect violence and power.

His mischievous smile momentarily transformed him into a truant child.

Most said they disliked punishing families with truant children, saying the policy would allow unruly teenagers to hurt their siblings.

There was a moment of dreadful suspense when he thought he would be returned like a truant child.

Ideally, truant children are to be steered into another program, Children at Risk.