MAIN CAUSES OF TRUANCY

As we know, truancy is the action of the students to stay in another place instead of home without any justification. So, there are some many reasons for becoming a truant.

Acording to The Alameda County Disctrict Attorney's Office:

• Homelessness: In over 20% of the cases, truant children were homeless.
• Bullying: In 13% of cases, bullying was a contributing factor.
• Home Environment: Family dysfunction was identified in 26% of cases. 
• Physical Health Issues: Those impacted students in 36% of cases.
• Mental Health Issues: Those were as frequent as physical health issues.
• Finance: In 26% of cases, the financial issues played a role in truancy.
• Ineffective Parenting: The lack of rigth parent skills were noted in 45% of cases.
• Transportation: 30% of children were truant because they lacked transportation.

In fact, those truant people constantly are affected by some many causes. Also, the vulnerable minority of teenagers with specific unnormal aspects and qualities are the most affected in the society. 

The proffessors Iñaki Piñuel Zabala y Araceli Oñate have describe almost 9 labels of bullying with the following indicence among the victims.

• Social block 29%
• Harassment 21%
• Manipulation 20%
• Constraints 17%
• Social Exclusion 16%
• Intimidation 14%
• Cyberbullying

Another fact is that the teenagers who belong to the lgbtiq+ community suffer discrimination and those kind of bullying, so they are affected to commit truancy.

In Latinamerica, Colombia portrays a report which shows how lgbtiq+ students face those issues in educative centers. The 67% said feeling insecure, consequently 1 of 4 students skip class because they are afraid.

Finally, as you can read, truancy is a big problem around the world, it's a consequence of another unsolve issues which continue affecting the society yet. Get informaton! Learn by yoursefl! Be more human! Stop truancy!

(Performance about truancy by students)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltUJMK2DKI

Pictures Sources:

https://www.k3sao.com/endtruancy
https://jjie.org/2015/04/08/west-virginia-eases-strict-truancy-law/
https://www.wired.com/2009/03/truancy-origins/
https://setimoportal.wordpress.com/tag/evangelicos/page/5/?iframe=true&preview=true%2F%3Fak_action%3Dreject_mobile

Bibliography:
http://atschool.alcoda.org/
https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/judicial/el-miedo-de-ir-al-colegio-ser-lgbt-articulo-663343
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoso_escolar