Too Cool for School

When truancy goes wrong

Joseph Yossarian

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Headshot of amiling thirteen year old schoolboy wearing blazer, shirt and school tie
the young truant (my own photo)

It was way too sunny to spend the day cooped up in a classroom. Having been raised on comics in which characters often played truant to go on fishing trips or similar adventures, I decided to emulate them. I went into school to get my attendance mark on the register, and then I sneaked off.

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Joseph Yossarian

Freelance writer and blogger from the north-east coast of England, specialising in true crime, childhood memories and whatever takes my fancy.