Keeping this as a word post (so not sure why I've put it in the AWAD in Schools category, but.)

Recently there has been numerous walk-outs in London and other cities by secondary school students to protest against the war, media coverage has varied in reffering to them as strikes or truancies - which is more accurate?
I mean, if a whole school walks out with the permission of staff is it truancy? Equally, how can these be called strikes if the students aren't stictly giving up anything such as pay?

Dear bonzaialsatian: They would appear to be absent with permission. Regrettable that they would miss school to protest without any likelihood of any good coming of it.
Protesting the impotence of the UN might be more appropriate.

To me it's hardly truancy if it's with staff permission. Around here the students, and the media, kept to the term "walk-out." And the local high school staged its walk-out from 10:30 to 1:00, missing only one or two classes (and lunchtime).

Anything to make a Roman holiday. And news comparable to dog pissing on hydrant.