examples:
~Effects of truancy for the student include:
- Decreased learning ability
- Involvement in daytime crime, such as breaking and entering, vandalism, and shoplifting
- Increased risk of dropping out of school
- Two and a half times more likely to be on welfare
- Involvement in gangs
- Struggling to catch up with school assignments
- Failing classes
- Risk of not obtaining a higher education.
- Effects of truancy to others:
- Truancy affects an entire class when a teacher slows down to help the truant student
- An increase in crime means more victims
- Increased cost to the whole community for additional law enforcement
- Welfare costs to society
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