TOKYO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Some 346,482 elementary and junior high school students in Japan were classified as truant in the last school year, marking the eleventh consecutive annual increase and the ...
The number of truant students at elementary and junior high schools rose by some 47,000 from the previous year to a record 346,482, marking the 11th straight year of increase. The growth reflected ...
School leaders say punishing families of truant kids won't fix the reasons why they're bunking off school in record numbers. A new report by the Education Review Office shows close to 80,000 kids were ...
Even when his parents returned after two weeks, he continued to play truant for three months, he says, flashing his report card to show how many school days he missed. “They sent me for ...