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

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