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Truancy At Vocational High School
INTRODUCTIONNaughty student is a form of student behavior that
deviates from the rules of the school such as is truant. Truancy called youth delinquency because it is already a truant behaviors reflecting violated school rules.
The word "truant" is very popular in primary school students until high school students.
Truancy is a response to boredom that are often experienced by many students to the school curriculum. Not only in big cities have seen students who are truant, even schools are located in the villages truant behavior has become a hobby.
Truancy, or unexcused absence from school, that because no apparent reason, not because of illness or other reasons. Truancy has been linked to serious delinquent activity in youth and to significant negative behavior and characteristics in adults.This problem needs serious handling. Because, this problem will be bad, both for the students themselves and to the school environment.
What is Truancy ?
How they do the truancy ?
The students usually went from home in the morning with a uniform, but they were not in
school.
Many reasons that make they skipped from school. Truancy fall into three broad categories, there are :
Why They Skipped (Truant) From School?
1. Family Factors
These includes : financial, social, medical, or other
programs that pressure students to stay home to help with
family, Child abuse and neglect, Family disorganization, Teen
pregnancy or parenthood, Lack of family support for educational
and other goals, Violence in or near the home or school, Differing
culturally based attitudes toward education.
2. School Factors
These includes: school climate such as school size and
attitudes of teachers or other students, and administrators—
and inflexibility in meeting the diverse cultural and learning
styles of the students. Schools often have inconsistent
procedures for dealing with chronic absenteeism and may not
have meaningful consequences available for truant youth.
3. Student Factors
These includes: a lack of personal and educational
ambition, Poor academic performance, Low school attachment,
Retention/overage for grade, Poor relationships with other
students, Lack of self-esteem, Unmet mental health needs,
Alcohol and drug use and abuse.
Consequences of Truancy
• Dropping out of school. Students who are chronically truant typically fall behind in grade level and drop out of school.
• Delinquency. Students who are chronically truant are also at-risk for other behaviors, such as alcohol and drug abuse, teenage
pregnancy, and delinquency.
• Negative effect upon other students. Students who are chronically truant require extra time from teachers; teachers have less time to spend with the regularly-attending students in the classroom when
they must create make-up work for truants.
THE ACTIONS THAT CAN DO TO REDUCE TRUANCY
There are many actions for reduce truant habit in students such as:
0 Discuss any attendance
problems. And then Giving an
advise for the child.
0 Teachers are always creative,
innovate to create a cheerful
atmosphere of the class is fun
and lively.
0 Giving responsibility both in
class and in school, which can
raise self-esteem and the trust.
For example, by following the
organization of the school as a
caretaker classes, etc.
0 Engaging all students in the
learning process. So the lesson
presented is not boring, such as
hold a quizzes, games, conduct
research, etc.
0 And many many more .
For example : A high school in California, USA, Anaheim
Union High School District, to implement a new way to overcome
the problem of students who like to truant habits. Instead of
punishment, students who skipped their school fact that even
given the 'gift' of a GPS mobile. Certainly is not a gift in the truest
sense. The device is basically a punishment, but is considered
more educated than the physical or mental punishment directly.
Any student caught truant at least four times a year will be
equipped with that device. They must report automatically with
the menu on the device five times a day, which is now going to
school, when they arrive at school, at lunch, at school, and every
day at 20.00.
ConclusionTruancy in fact do by students who can not be responsible for
themselves and not be able to respect themselves.
However, they can not be separated from the factors that cause students to truant from school, such as family factors, school factors, factors from students themselves.
And all actions of truant habits be result :0 Dropping out of school. 0 Students are also at-risk for other behaviors, such as alcohol and
drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and delinquency. 0 Negative effect upon other students. .
For problem solving it required special attention both from their family and their school.
Sugesstion
We recommend that students who are truant
give punishments or advice. But, hard punishments are
not always able to problem solving. But it would be nice
if the approach taken by the student like a friend. If that
way does not work, then steps must be taken is to
contact parents of students to be solve the problem
well. The support to repent from family, friends or
friendship is the most important.
The End