How can we solve Truancy?
Nowadays, one of the problems that the society
is facing is truancy. In different parts of the world, children and teenagers don´t go to their high school because they
invert their time in different type of activities, in some cases parents don´t
know that their kids are truant, and in
other type of situations they don´t care about this.
Even though, in some countries, government is
taking into consideration truancy as a problem that they need to solve in order
to can create a better environment, that´s why according to (Cole & Reid, 2009) in their article
they said that what people need to do is to establish a link between the
importance of an education and the future of kids, and when they refer to this
link, the responsible of this action are parents.
We need to realize that if parents don´t talk
about how important is to go to school, or how children and teenagers are going
to get benefits if they study during their lives, what we are doing is
increasing truancy in the world, we need to start doing something and the
change needs to begin in the homes.
If we start to do this, we will see
professionals instead of seeing how teenagers become drug addicts or thieves,
let´s change our society by solving truancy.
The more you teach your children, the best
professionals they become!
WHAT IS TRUANCY?
Truancy is an unexcused
absence from school, that it means when a student didn’t attend classes and
they didn’t have a real justification to be absence.
In some countries the
truants are punished, for example if a student missed more than 10 days of school they are required to
repeat the entire school year.
Some other examples of punishments are according to Theoharis,
M (2014) are:
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A juvenile court may impose several penalties
against the parent or guardian of a truant teen. Common penalties include
fines, attending parenting education courses, or attending family counseling.
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A court may also order a teen into psychological
testing and counseling. The teen may have to attend individual counseling,
group counseling, or attend family counseling with parents or guardians.
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A juvenile court can order a truant student to
attend after-school, weekend, or summer sessions to make up for the school the
child missed. The court may also order the student to enroll in an alternate
education course, a skill center or trade school, public education courses,
dropout prevention courses, or other related programs.
How is truancy affecting our
society?
One of the problems that our society is facing
now is Truancy, every day, the number of teenagers that are absent in schools
without justifications is increasing al around the world, in some cases parents
take into consideration this, but sometimes they don´t care if this is
happening.
Besides, when we see young people who are in
jail because they killed someone or robbers who are less than eighteen years
old, is in that moment when we see the results of “doing nothing to stop
truancy in our society”
In some countries, governments don´t consider truancy
as an important problem, they justify this argument by saying that they have
another type of troubles that are more important that asking teenagers what
they are not going to school, nevertheless, if we start to analyze, if we want
to build a better world, what we need are professionals that will be able to
build that world, that´s why we need to give importance to solve truancy in our
society.
There are some scientific studies that show us
how delinquency increase every year and I f we compare this data with the
number of truants that exist in a city, we will see how is linked this
information with truancy.
We need to solve this problem instead of
closing our eyes and do nothing.
(Forever May, 2013)
(Ferris,S. 2012)
(Bubbles Photolibrary, 2016)
(ABC, 2014)
(ABC, 2014)
(Virginia, L. 2013)
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