An investigation of environmental data, attitudes, feelings, and basic needs of thirty critical junior high school truants

In this study, the writer will attempt to further the work done by the students of truancy. The approach is somewhat different from that in general use. In the research which has been done in this area, the emphasis has been upon objective comparison of truants with non-truants. The reader will find here an approach which attempts to discover the feelings and attitudes of truants toward the situation in which they find themselves. By this method, it is hoped that a better understanding of these attitudes will result in more effective action by the parents, teachers, and agency workers who contact them.