Dalton also chairs the district's SARB, a multi-agency panel composed of representatives from various youth - serving agencies that
helps truant students and their parents or guardians solve school attendance and behavior problems.
In Elk Grove, district spokeswoman Xanthi Pinkerton said officials want to do more to
help truant students.
Not exact matches
To be sure, he had been chronically late and
truant, and he didn't seem to want to be
helped or to
help himself.
Nor can a teacher be asked to
help supervise a lunchroom or study hall,
help special - education students on and off the bus,
help college applicants prepare their transcripts, score city - wide tests, or write
truant slips.
One thing that stood out is this young man, Steven, who for most of the year was a
truant and yet is here to
help organize the event.
Furthermore, in so far as a study of children will
help, it is far wiser to prevent problems from becoming acute than to introduce clinical aid and other external correctives into the educational program after the problem child has become a
truant or delinquent.
Torlakson praised the Model SARBs for analyzing which students need the most
help and in reducing the number of students who are chronically absent or
truant.