Good evening. I must say that Zainab had a lot to say in her post on ways of preventing truancy. Thank you my friend for the post. I would like to share on some measures that can be taken to prevent this social problem, which I found from a website. This post is mainly on the responsibilities of parents.

1. Parents should educate their children about the importance of education. This means parents should teach their children to make school a priority. Therefore, students must not miss school to help with the family business or to attend vacations that fall during the school days. Allowing students to miss school for reasons other than illness or family emergencies sends the message that school is not important.
2. Parents should mug up (study) with their children, that is to work with their child on subjects with which he or she struggles in. This is because certain student skips school to avoid facing embarrassment in the classroom when their academic performance is poor.
3. Parents are ought to explore alternative schools in their district. This is in case of social problem in the current school their child is in. Parents should be aware that other truant students can negatively influence their child and they might need to switch schools for severe problems. Parents are adviced to talk to the school counselor about this possibility.
4. Parents should request the school to notify them when their child is absent. The school must notify parents whether the absence is excused or unexcused to ensure the child is not forging his or her own excuses.

These are the few things that I have summarize from a website. I hope all of you find this post interesting and easy to be carried out. Thank you.

URL : http://www.ehow.com/how_2086207_prevent-truancy.html#

posted by, Eliza Maria Benjamine

hi friends,I'm back ......thanks for the post friends, i just read those post....

In the post that Eliza's post about the article its clearly shows that truant students is consuming to alcoholic drinks. students who are truant not only consume to alcoholic but they also take drugs and smoke. this habits are totally injuries to their health. furthermore truancy effects alot on the student because students who are truant keen to involve in gangsterism, vandalism and shoplifting. this kind of activities will spoil their future life. moreover truancy not only effects the students itself but it also effects people around them. when students play truant teachers take action to solve their students problem. this act will slow down the class teaching time and also will effect other student studies. other than that truancy also effect our community where when students play truant they might involved in gangsterism that will make people around them feel unsafe and frustrated with their behaviour.so its clearly shows that truancy makes every one's life unsafe especially the truant students life....so that's all for now catch you all soon....

posted by: kokila

Good evening to all of you out there. I would like to share a news article on TRUANCY. It is mainly about truancy among young individuals which is primary school pupils. I personally find this article quite disturbing, knowing what our younger brothers and sisters are doing behind our backs. i hope you find this article interesting.

Thursday October 1, 2009
Truancy a problem among pupils
By MAZWIN NIK ANIS

PUTRAJAYA: Truancy tops the list of disciplinary problems among primary school students followed by rude behaviour and the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
The Education Ministry is looking at ways to tackle these problems as the number of errant students have increased.
“Some primary school pupils in Sabah and Sarawak have been found drinking tuak and other locally-made alcoholic drinks and this must be checked immediately,” Deputy Educa-tion Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong told reporters yesterday.
According to the ministry’s records, 0.79% of the primary school pupils were involved in disciplinary problems between January and June this year, compared with 0.78% during the same period last year.
Although the increase was “almost negligible,” it needed to be checked as it involved young individuals who “already know how to skip school, be rude to their teachers and peers and drink alcohol.”
“We believe the pupils are influenced by television programmes or movies. That is where they learn foul language and violent acts,” he said.
Apart from truancy, students were also found to have committed lewd acts and some were even involved in criminal activities such as fighting and causing hurt and injuries to others.
Dr Wee said there were plans to appoint senior discipline teachers and to reduce the student-counsellor ratio to 1:300 from the current 1:500 so that the counsellors would not be over burdened.

posted by Eliza Maria Benjamine

Hi fellow members and followers. Hope all of you enjoyed the holiday. Well..I surely did! In my humble opinion, students who play truant are risking their chances of having a bright future. These individuals are clearly mentally immature to be involved in such social problem and having their future destroyed in a snap. How can they not imagine their own future by being involved in of the popular social problem? It is just sad to think that they would not be able to achieve a higher level of education. Truancy among students also affects the schools. An increasing rate of truancy cases will ruin the reputation of schools involved. This will then lead to parents not having faith or shall I say confident on a school. Parents would not want to send their children to a school which has a high rate of social problems. Besides that, truancy will certainly affect an entire class. Teachers tend to slow down and pay more attention on truants. This is so that students who plays truant can catch up with the syllabus. Other than that, the teacher might have to repeat the syllabus over again and this will disturb the other students who had already done that particular syllabus. Worse come to worst, the teacher might have to spare more of their time by carrying out extra classes.

posted by Eliza Maria Benjamine

my opinion on what had kokila has post is that there are 2 major effects of truancy give on a students..first is that playing traunt can spoil their studies another is that it can lead to more other social problems among teenagers such as vandalism, smoking, involvement in drugs and so on. it's obvious that when a student keep on skipping classes he wont be able to know whats goin on in class..what his teacher teaches in class and stuff so eventually he wont be able to score a good marks in exam. when a student play truant n hang around with his friends there are much higher possiblity that he might approach those who already creating social problems nowadays.therefore, the numbers of teenagers creating social problem will go higher and higher and all these problems will trouble the society and the our country only.

hi friends kokila here......now its my turn to post my research question.....so far we had finish three RQ and nw the fourth RQ is what are the effect on students who play truant?....as we all know they are many effect to the student who play truant if they keep on truanting for a long term or short term...students who become truant and eventually drop out school too often set themselves up for a life struggle so its effects them self and others.....

examples:

~Effects of truancy for the student include:

• Decreased learning ability
  
• Involvement in daytime crime, such as breaking and entering, vandalism, and shoplifting
  
• Increased risk of dropping out of school
  
• Two and a half times more likely to be on welfare
  
• Involvement in gangs
  
• Struggling to catch up with school assignments
  
• Failing classes
  
• Risk of not obtaining a higher education.

• Effects of truancy to others:

• Truancy affects an entire class when a teacher slows down to help the truant student
  
• An increase in crime means more victims
  
• Increased cost to the whole community for additional law enforcement
  
• Welfare costs to society

url: http://www.ci.traverse-city.mi.us/Truancy%20Website/page6.html