These students are noted by Johnston (2005) to feel interior to other students academically and to be students who have family conflict in their lives or perceive family conflicts in their lives. Finally, Johnston notes that these students tends to feel socially incompetent in the classroom. The study of Johnston suggests transitions programs, school-based health programs, career education and work-study programs, academic support, and extracurricular activities for coping with truancy rates among students. The work of Wheeler (2005) goes further into the outcomes for these students providing statistics of incarceration for students who tend to be found guilty of truancy. The state of Illinois experienced such a high incarceration rate of these delinquent that communities are now developing their own program in an attempt to redirect these students. These programs are a great success with these students advancing as much as a grade level in six weeks. The applications being used in this model include community development of reporting centers, education classes for parents, art programs, one-on-one mentoring. The key is the design being...

Both of these works report genuine efforts in regaining the interest of the students who have been truant in school. Wheeler (2002) illustrates the dire need for initiatives to bring these students back into the classroom instead of the alternative route of incarceration being experienced by so many of these students in the state of Illinois.
Bibliography

Johnston, H. (2005) Student Attendance: Research and Strategies -the Principals' Partnership. Online available at http://www.principalspartnership.com/attendance2.pdf./

Wheeler, G. (2002) Truancy, Delinquency, Prison: Can Schools Break this Cycle? Illinois School Board Journal September/October 2002. Online available…