Truant child

truant \TROO-uhnt\, noun:

1. a person who shirks or neglects his or her duty.
2. a student who stays away from school without permission.

adjective:
1. absent from school without permission.
2. neglectful of duty or responsibility; idle.
3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a truant.

verb:
1. to be truant.

I really really really wish I had a good story about being a bad kid in school, and how I was truant all the time.  But I wasn't, I was a goddy-goody who saw tardiness and being truant as the end of the world.

The truth is I was never a truant in school.  I went out of my way to be on-time and in class every single day of the year.  In fact, I had perfect attendance during my 7th and 8th grade years.  There was even a day in the sixth grade when my mom was late in taking me to school, and she said to me, "Do you want to just miss your first period and go get Starbucks?"

Now, any normal kid would love to do that!  Even today, I would love to do that!  But I was a weird, non-truant child and said, "No!  That's insane I need to go to class!"

And so I did, even though I was late.  I wasn't truant though.  :)