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Show Bombs Increase Truancy In Birmingham Schools BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. Almost Al-most 40 per cent of the school children chil-dren of Birmingham are playing truant, and many boys of 13 and 14 are earning as much as $8 a week in factories. This work is mostly part-time. The rest of the time the boys roam the streets, and as a result there has been an increase in the number of cases in the juvenile court. The trouble began when attendance attend-ance was made voluntary because of inadequate air-raid shelters at the schools. Now the children refuse to return to school, and ignore parents and school attendance officers alike. |