School non-attendance
English translation: long-term/chronic truancy / long-term/chronic absenteeism
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| 4 +2 | long-term/chronic truancy / long-term/chronic absenteeism |
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peer agreement (net): +2| school non-attendance long-term/chronic truancy / long-term/chronic absenteeism Explanation: "School non-attendance" is understandable. "School refusers" wasn't something immediately familiar to me, but there are a few references online using it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_refusal "Truancy and school withdrawal are often mislabelled as school refusal. Truancy or ‘wagging’ is when young people have unapproved absences without their parents’ consent or knowledge, and will generally stay away from the family home. School withdrawal occurs with parent consent and involves young people who may be carers or who are working to contribute to the household. School refusal is when young people ‘can’t’ rather than ‘won’t’ go to school. It is defined as a “child-motivated refusal to attend school or difficulty attending classes or remaining in school for an entire day”." https://www.governmentnews.com.au/24691/ & https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/getting-school-refus... "The term ‘school refusers’ can incorporate pupils with varying difficulties who, for whatever reason, do not attend school regularly. Research has shown that practitioners use the term ‘school refuser’ in different ways. Sometimes it is used interchangeably with the term ‘school phobics’, but at other times school refusers refers to a broader group of pupils with more general issues of non-attendance relating to disaffection." http://www.schoolrefuser.org.uk/ Although "school refusal"/"school refusers" might be appropriate, it also seems to be less likely to be understood by non-specialists, and also subject to different interpretations even by experts. The above-claimed 'definitions' of truancy/wagging are not necessarily correct, or at least not universally accepted. "Non-attandant at school" is grammatically odd/wrong: you probably meant "non-attandance at school". The jargon expression in the context of students skipping classes at school (incl. whole days) would be "truancy". http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?... You might also find the slang word "to wag" applied to students skipping lessons (incl. whole days) at school. http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?... Of more general scope, the word "absenteeism" could also be applied. https://enezaeducation.com/absenteeism-in-school/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absenteeism Please note that the above terms are all focussed on students who are enrolled. If you need to emphasise the long time frame (30 days or more of consecutive absence), then you can use "chronic" or "long-term". https://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/10-children-education/t... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027277571... https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/gradesch... ~~~~~ If you had needed to also/only include students who are not enrolled, then expressions such as "non-attendance" or "unenrolled" may have been more appropriate. https://lsa.umich.edu/math/undergraduates/policies/policy-on... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 hrs (2019-08-23 01:23:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, there was a spelling mistake in my 'correction', it should be: "non-attendance at school". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 hrs (2019-08-23 01:27:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- By the way, it wasn't clear to me whether "Futoko" refers to the situation or to the students themselves. If you wanted a translation of "Futoko", then maybe you'd get good advice by posting a Japanese to English Translation query. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day 9 hrs (2019-08-23 12:17:19 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Thinking about it further, although "non-attendance" is understandable, I feel that it is unnecessarily broad. "Non-attendance" could include absence from school because of a family holiday or illness (including absences lasting for weeks or even months). That is, absences which the school has been notified about in advance and has 'approved'. By contrast, "truancy" and "absenteeism" would exclude absence for reasons that the school would deem 'legitimate'. "Truancy" and "absenteeism" generally involve absences not notified in advance, and not 'approved'. "Truancy" and "absenteeism" can refer to the student being absent from school because they are bored, angry, sad, scared, anxious, etc. Or maybe there's something else the student prefers to do. The main point is that those terms are generally focussed on the student's thoughts/feelings/plans. I suppose those words could also encompass a case in which (say) a student greatly disagreed with religious (or atheistic) teaching at school, although in such a situation a word like "boycott" might be more evocative. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 683 days (2021-07-05 07:38:31 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- In a recent video from NSW Health (Australia) an example of "school refusal" is recounted involving a student who repeatedly skipped school on Monday mornings. https://vimeo.com/571061909/b25327f986 I mention this to again indicate that — even among professionals working in this area — there can be quite different applications of the the term "school refusal". |
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