truant officer

Truant officers once only had to have a willingness to do the job.

"And sometimes they go with truant officers looking for absent students."

"I would call the truant officer on my own son.

Young people in trouble could once turn to truant officers and community agencies.

Back then, a kid stayed out of school, the truant officer came to the house.

It was Tuesday, a school day, and he wanted to avoid truant officers.

"I think the truant officer was in my mother's kitchen more often than his own.

Now, he is a truant officer with the Board of Education.

When I got home for lunch, there was the truant officer."

"If you're a truant officer, let me see your credentials."

The truant officers plucked more kids off the street and asked them stupid questions like, Where do you go to school?

Hurrying to his office, he held my sleeve as a truant officer had, once.

Since at least the 1960's, truant officers have been called attendance teachers.

He gives Rachel the blank stare he'd give a truant officer.

He said, "I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me.

Alec winced, like a boy who'd been caught by the truant officer.

It was the Truant Officer - the same one who'd seen him at the execution.

Jeremy's mother became friends with the man's wife, who works as a truant officer for the city's Board of Education.

In 1999, he supported a proposal to rehire the city's truant officers.

The judge, chief of police, school inspector and truant officer were all against the school.

Truant Officers started checking the lines early in the morning and were berated by the girls.

"A good old-fashioned truant officer could have a ball today," Flood observed.

For brief periods he was a civil rights investigator, a truant officer, and a government researcher.

For the 80 students, there are a director, three teachers, eight tutors from local colleges, two counselors and a truant officer.

New York City and State have never had "truant officers."