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the art of being somewhere your parents think isn't school, on purpose.
means unauthorized absence from school without permission or valid excuse.
from from old french 'truand,' meaning vagabond or beggar, itself possibly from celtic roots meaning wretched or vagrant — so etymologically, skipping class makes you a tiny medieval beggar.
legal weightcan trigger fines or court action for parents
not sick daysdiffers from absence: truancy implies deliberate deception
global habitstudied as an early predictor of dropout risk