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Skipping school to learn exactly how much the real world does not care about your excuse.
means The act of staying away from school without permission, especially habitually.
from Truancy traces back to 'truant,' which entered English from Old French 'truant,' meaning a beggar or vagabond — someone who wandered idly rather than working. That French word is possibly of Celtic origin, related to a Breton or Gaulish term for 'wretched' or 'vagrant.' The sense narrowed over time from general idleness and begging to its modern, schoolroom-specific meaning: a child dodging class rather than an adult dodging labor.
- origin
- from old word for vagabond, not villain
- legal twist
- parents can be fined, not just kids
- record
- some countries jail parents over it
- irony
- truant officers were once the scary adults