51.   She skips school, refuses to fill out college applications, spends afternoons watching Jerry Springer on TV or shooting pool.

52.   She would sometimes skip school to run on a track across the street.

53.   So, the boy said, he has skipped school for five days while he goes barefoot.

54.   Skipping school, getting into fights, hanging with a gang were the least of it.

55.   Soon, she was skipping school, had moved in with her boyfriend and was taking three pills a day.

56.   Students often skip school because they fear other students, researchers have found.

57.   That is pathetic enough, as no self-respecting American truant would tell his parents of his plans to skip school, let alone spend the day in their company.

58.   The best friend of children who want to skip school, these fragile glass tubes are easily broken.

59.   The atmosphere resembles the camp of a rag-tag army composed of soldiers who have skipped school or are AWOL from work.

60.   The father said the kids were skipping school and he had come over from Perrin Street to borrow money from his girlfriend in order to buy his boys breakfast.