What means truancy in Ecuador?
Nowadays many teenagers are truant but many of them don’t know the real mean so according to (Cde.ca.gov, 2017): “The California Legislature defined a truant in very precise language. In summary, it states that a student missing more than 30 minutes of instruction without an excuse three times during the school year must be classified as a truant and reported to the proper school authority”. With this definition we can say that be a truant is when someone pretend to go to the school but then they decide don’t go without any reason. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/community/2013/09/07/confessions-of-a-truant-in-part-two-of-starmetros-focus-on-truancy-among-students-in-the-klang-valle/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-khF3McaJA Situation of truancy in Ecuador In our country, Ecuador, exist one term that define truancy, this term was used by our parents even our grandparents and the word is Pava.The term pava is widely used to distinguish students from missing classes witho...