school attendance officer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Her five children got sick so often that a school attendance officer came to visit.
From New York Times
There are the school attendance officer and the sanitary inspector.
From Project Gutenberg
No inspector of nuisances pays them a visit; the tax-gatherer knows not their whereabouts; the rate-collector troubles them not with any ‘demand note;’ their children are not provided with proper and necessary education, yet no school attendance officer serves them with a summons.
From Project Gutenberg
Corkey is the School Attendance Officer and a terror to every boy in the neighbourhood.
From Project Gutenberg
As he threw up the sash Elder Penno caught sight of Tom Hancock, the school attendance officer, lounging against a post on the quay below.
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