WHY ARE THE STUDENTS PLAYING TRUANT???

Hi there everyone! It’s me..Eliza Maria Benjamine, a member of Eureka. I want to thank Zainab for an interesting introduction on truancy among students. We hope that everyone understand the definition of truancy in general. Now, we are going to move on with the next discussion which is...Why are the students playing truant?? Based on reliable sources, here are some of the reasons on truancy among students...



1.LACK OF INTEREST TO STUDY

• Most students these days are much more captivated by entertainment such as watching television, playing video games and surfing the net. Therefore, such entertainment will distract their mind from education and this will lead them to play truant.

2.DIFFICULITIES IN UNDERSTANDING LESSONS

• Some students experience difficulities in absorbing and understanding certain subjects/lessons in school such as Mathematics, History, Science and many more. Therefore, some of them play truant simply because they cannot take the pressure of not understanding things.

3.TO ESCAPE FROM BULLIES

• Bullies in school makes most students feel unsafe and insecure. Bullying is a serious matter that even teachers are not able to control it. Most students tend to play truant to excape harassment and physical assault.
  

4.HEALTH COMPLICATION

• Some students have re-occuring health complication such as asthma, migraine and gastric. these students normally play truant because some parents cant afford to pay the medical bills and medical certificates cant be given too often. As a result, students stay back home and do not attend lessons.

5.MIND-NUMBING LESSONS

• Mind-numbing lessons, in other words, uninteresting lessons are one of the reasons why students play truant. Most students rather stay at home to avoid a boring class. Lessons on history, geography and languages are some of the lessons known to be uninteresting. As for me, lessons may be boring only when a student have no interest in it.

According to, http://www.susanscheff.net/truancy-causes/

thanks eliza and kokila for your comments..i totally agree with eliza that students are not the only one who should be blamed other parties like parents, teachers, friends are equally to be blamed for this. anyways i think we have done with difinition and should move to the next topic that " why students are truanting". under this topic we will know who is actually responsible for this social problem.