playing hooky...

Here is the definition of truant:  a juvenile at least seven, but less than sixteen years of age who is absent from school without a lawful excuse.

The Greenville Police Department has partnered with the Pitt County Schools System to address truancy in the school within the city limits.  The GPD truancy program has 4 goals:

• To return out-of-school kids who are found to be skipping class, back to school
• To enforce the compulsory school attendance laws
• To reduce the school drop-out rate
• To reduce child victimization and crime committed  by school age children

Throughout the school year, our PAL program officers,  School Resource officers, and Patrol officers will be on the lookout for school-aged kids who appear to be out of school without proper excuse.

Police officers will return truant kids to school whenever they are found.

This is one way in which the Greenville Police Department is working to keep kids in school and to keep them safe.

Playing hooky from school is not like it used to be...