Truancy

The Houston Chronicle carries an Associated Press story from California about kids missing school. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.

Black elementary students in California were chronically truant at nearly four times the rate of all students during the last school year, the attorney general's office report showed. The rate was higher than that of any other subgroup, including homeless children.

Perhaps the John Ogbu research we linked to here two days ago answers the question "Why does this happen?"