Two thirds of students were also reported as being chronically truant. In Finland truant pupils usually get detention in comprehensive schools. Solanas disliked her stepfather and began rebelling against her mother, becoming a truant. A boy whom Tracy befriends at the secret house in which she plays truant. When Rice was a sophomore, the school's principal caught Rice being truant. That same year, Luciano's parents sent him to the Brooklyn Truant School. They later kiss, and Preston encourages Bex to truant from school. He begins to play truant, gamble and lie to his parents. From age 13, he used alcohol and marijuana and started being truant from school. The verb "mitch" is very common in Ireland, indicating being truant from school. It includes actors Dylan Schmid, Atticus Dean Mitchell, Leigh Truant, Aidan Shipley, and more. The two became friends and often played truant together. Afterwards Black Lungs also toured the way across Canada with Cancer Bats and Johnny Truant. Donnelly tells him that Sherrod is on the truant list. A stripper who is a regular client of the tattoo parlour where Truant works.