SIR - Truancy in school or pupils skipping lessons, what is the modern definition of children not being in school?

The report on truancy (T&A, September 22) shows a confused picture.

How can a child who is late but in school be considered as a truant? How is a late report of illness also a truancy situation?

Many schools are huge, 1,000 to 1,500 pupils. Children are moved about for special measures, control or discipline, some not being in their usual classes for other reasons. Seemingly these are also truancy situations.

With a huge pupil population how can the administrators keep a proper check on students' whereabouts?

How can parents be taken to court on the flimsy evidence of a seemingly flawed pupil accounting system?

Has the education system really got its maths right?

R J Lacey, Wrose Road, Bradford