hmm..yeah students might sit at home and study but i dont think majority do so. half of the students bunk off just because want to hang out with their friends like they go watch movies, bowling or there are students who do vandalism around destroy public properties and stuff. just because students not been caught for playing truant therefore social problems are increasing rapidly in our country. students involving in destructive habits such as taking drugs.besides that, there are few numbers of students who do part time job during school hours therefore they take studies for granted and concentrate more on their work..im not saying that its wrong to do part time job because may be they just want to help out their parents in financial matter but i tihnk they should just work on weekend instead of weekdays during school hours they should know how to manage their time and equally give importance to their studies as well as their job.. furthermore, one more thing that students normally do when they play truant is that they go for a vacations with their family. the thing we should concern about this is that why the parents encourage and bring their kids for vacation during school time?

hi it's me kokila here......so,now we have move on to our next research question that is what do student do when they play truant?....as what eliza had posted many most of the student nowadays play truant to study at home because students feel they understand better when they study at home.If you all still remember my post about the news that students play truant to be with their boyfriend so this also anoyher thing what syudent do when they play truant. student will spend time with their boyfriend/girlfriend by playing truant.Other than if all of us know is student used to hang out with friends and they are some student play truant just to watch their favourite tv program....that's all from me for now but will be back with new updates....bye

What Do Students Do When They Play Truant?

Firstly, we would like to thank Dr. Zaini for going through our blog yesterday and giving us suggestions as well as advices to improve our blog. Thank you my fellow members for your contribution on the post regarding factors that leads to truancy. As we can see, there are many reasons on why students play truant in their daily lives. Now, we are going to move on with our next topic of discussion which is..what do students do when they play truant. In my very own opinion, students hang out with their friends when they play truant. Parents are usually strict. Therefore, children are allowed to go out on school days. Hence, this resorts students to play truant just to be with their friends. Besides that, students stay back home to watch television and this may or may not be without their parents knowledge. I remember the time when I skipped school on a school day in 2002 just to watch the World Cup on live telecast. Believe it or not, some students study at home when they play truant. These students find it difficult to study at school due to certain reasons such as noisy environment, bad facilities and improper class placement. Thus, students feels they can concentrate on their studies better when they are at home. That is all for now. Thank you.



posted by Eliza Maria Benjamine

Hi friends! Thank you for the feedback on reasons students play truant. I must say that is an interesting article posted by Kokila. It is actually not to my surprise because it happens here, in Malaysia too. Few years back, I had a friend who skips school and classes just to be with her guy. She did so because her family does not approve her of being in an relationship while she is still pursuing her studies in school. As for the points posted by Zainab, she explained the causes in detail. I have forgotten to mention that parents are also the cause for students playing truant. There are some parents that encourage their child to play truant...to go for family vacation during schooling days and even when parents themselves are not able to wake up early in the morning to drop their kids to school. As for my parents, they do encourage me to skip school at times for a family vacation. Besides that, there are some students who are forced to earn a living while pursuing their studies because of parents..to help their family who experiences financial problems. Many parents do not explain to their kids on the importance of education in life. This is the main reason why students do not care for the times they play truant and continue to do it.

Eliza Maria Benjamine

hi kokila here just wanna add little bit about what had been posted by my Friends about what is the cause of truancy........... truancy is not only caused by the students but its also caused by the family, school, and community... i know everyone already know about that after u all read our posts in the blog........but just wanna inform that generally, truancy is a three-fold problem...here are some list of causes that i found about truancy is caused by student, family, school and community.......


student

1. Poor self-concept; low self-esteem
2. Low academics; particularly behind in reading and math
3. Socially isolated; poor inter-personal skills; lack of positive peer relationships at school
4. Feeling of not belonging at school, of being different
5. Feeling of lack of control over life (i.e. 'No matter how hard I try I will not succeed.')
6. Little or no extra-curricular involvement
7. Mental and/or emotional instability; childhood depression
8. Unidentified learning disabilities
9. Vision and/or auditory problems that have gone undiagnosed
10. Language barriers
11. Poor health
12. Negative peer relationships; older, non-school oriented friends
13. Substance abuse
14. Fear of school, teachers, and/or administrators
15. Experienced recent traumatic event (divorce, death of a loved one)
16. Fear of physical protection going to or at school
17. Teenage pregnancy and/or parenting.

Family
1. Parents lack appreciation for value of education
2. Parents are high-school dropouts
3. Financial difficulties (lack of adequate nutrition, clothing, transportation; inability to pay fees)
4. Ineffective parenting; lack of parental control and supervision
5. Familial instability (one-parent household; parental discord; poor parent-child relationship;
frequent moving)
6. Inappropriate role models
7. Child abuse and/or neglect (physical, psychological, sexual)
8. Substance abuse; alcoholic parent
9. Parental convenience (older sibling kept home to babysit for young children)

School
1. Uninteresting and irrelevant curriculum
2. Improper class placement (above or below abilities)
3. Failure to identify and provide services for problem students
4. Poor pupil-teacher relationships
5. Insufficient counseling and guidance staff
6. High student/teacher ratio
7. Low teacher expectations
8. Lack of parent - school communication and involvement
9. Too weak, or too rigid administration of policies

Community
1. Lack of support for school
2. Lack of, or unresponsive community service agencies
3. Community upheaval and social change
4. Loss of neighborhood schools and sense of 'ownership' of schools
5. Negative peer influences
6. High incidence of substance abuse, criminal activity
7. Gang activity
8. Inadequate provision for transportation

i know its a long list but we can know what caused truancy based on those list.....

http://mcdonough.k12.il.us/optionaleducation/TAOEP/truancy.htm

posted by kokila

i think there is a point in eliza's post that we all should give attention..that students play traunt coz their parents encourage them. parents bring their children for vacation during school time. even statistic shows that the highest numbers of youngsters missing school for family vacation. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Increasing-number-of-pupils-playing.5023123.jp. and yeah i agree there are parents who does not give importance to their children's education especially those who are from rural areas.they prefer their children take over their family business rather than wasting their time studying in schools.therefore, they dont really care whether their children doing well in their studies or not. anyways i found another reasons for students bunking off from school which is the students who suffering from dyslexia( having difficulties in studies ) which is not been discovered or recognised by his or her parents or any other parties and as to avoid to be treaten unsympathetically by his friends , teachers or parents they will stop going school at all.
zainab bt ibrahim

there are many reasons why students play truant in their lives. evrybody in society should be responsible over this social problem. i would like to add few more points that I discovered from a book.

1. Poor parental supervision

• parents these days are just too busy with their career to earn a living for their families. kids are left by their own wondering around while parents are at work. children are well aware that their parents are busy at work that they have the guts to bunk off school and chill out with other truants.

2. School atmosphere

• it is obvious that there are many students in a school. therefore, this leads to a noisy environment. there are some students who cant agree to this environment while studying..which eventually leads them to play truant. they rather be at home studying for a better concentration.

3. Lack of attention

• some classes are just over-crowded with students probably because the school lack of classes. in each classes, there are students who need personal attention and expects the teachers to offer such attention. but this is quite impossible for a class with many students. hence, these students make their own decisions to stay back home and get their parents to teach them.

source: helping troubled people by chris kyriacou

eliza maria benjamine