<P> Truancy is a frequent subject of popular culture . Ferris Bueller's Day Off is about the title character's (played by Matthew Broderick) day of truancy in Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend . Truancy is also the title of a 2008 novel about a student uprising against a dictatorial educational system . </P> <P> There are experiences that show that thanks to the incorporation of Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) in schools with high absenteeism they have managed to reduce truancy and thus contribute to the improvement of academic success . </P> <P> There are a number of expressions in most of languages which refer to truancy . In South Africa, the slang used is bunking, mulling, skipping or jippo . In Jamaica, it is called skulling . In Guyana skulking . In Antigua and Barbuda, it is called skudding . In New Zealand and Australia truancy is called wagging, "jigging", ditching, or skipping school . It is called bunking (off) or skiving or wagging in the United Kingdom, mitching, twagging, "skiving" or on the knock . In Wales, mitching or sagging . In Liverpool, bunking or cutting class, doggin, skiving, playing tickie or puggin . In Scotland, on the hop, on the bunk, mitching, beaking, skiving, doggin it or on the beak . In Ireland, mitching, on the hop, dossing, on the duck or skiving . In the United States and Canada expressions include hookey, playing hookey, ditching, dipping, jigging, sluffing, skipping, cutting class, or simply just cutting . In the city of St. John's, the act of truancy is known amongst youths as pipping off, and truant students are described as being on the pip . In Trinidad and Tobago, it is referred to as breaking biche . In Singapore and Malaysia, it is referred to as fly . In the state of Utah a sluff is a commonly used word referring to a truancy . In Pakistan and India it is referred to as bunking . In South Korea, it is called ddaeng - ddaeng - i (땡땡이 (땡땡이 치다)). In Japan, It is called zuruyasumi . </P> <P> In Denmark, some welfare benefits can be confiscated for a period if the child does not attend school . However, not all cities use this approach to keep the children in school . Most cities watch for families who have not returned their children to school after the summer vacation because some groups exiled their children to their ethnic home countries for behavior modification . In the city of Aarhus, 155 children had not turned up one week after the school started . In April 2009, research among 4,000 students showed that more than every third student had been absent during the last 14 days . </P>

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