On supporting truancy

Author Rin Kobayashi’s haiku submissions have been continuously chosen by Kōta Kaneko and Kai Hasegawa of the Asahi Shimbun's prestigious haiku column. He is now a high schooler. Adamantly against bullying in his elementary school days, Kobayashi has penned numerous essays and poems on “dignified truancy.” Hasegawa’s included poem People Who Resist is also quite moving.

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