Absenteeism And Absenteeism

Obtaining an education is essential in today’s society. Most students who attend school on a regular basis usually succeed in life. On the other hand, many students fail to attend school every day which can lead to problems in schools. However, some students have acceptable reasons for dropping out. As a result, a student’s punctuality can ultimately alter his or her education. On that note, dropping out of high school can affect an individual in many ways throughout the years. Schools are facing challenges dealing with high dropout rates, high rates of truancy, and low graduation rates because students are failing to attend school.

Student attendance is important to reaching key academic milestones, graduating from high school and having access to opportunities as adults. Studies show that students who are chronically absent (miss 18 days or more during the school year for any reason) are less likely to graduate from high school. SPS Housing and Education Manager Kathlyn Paananen speaks to the significance of caring adults in a student’s life as having a proven, positive impact on student success, “Best practices to address attendance include having a supportive community that positively reinforce regular school attendance!”

Students who dropout of high school before the age of 18 put their well-being at risk later on in life. According to BMC Public Health’s study focusing on over 3146 dropout students ranging in age from 20-29, “Poor mental health was present in 24% of the participants.” This emphasizes the fact that if teenagers drop out of high school they hurt their health because they go into a depressive state easier than their classmates who graduate. As a result of the depression, they go unemployed. This continues into a lack of anything to do and stress of unpayable bills. Finally, the data suggests that students should not be allowed to dropout without a diploma because when these students go into an unhealthy mental state, they can lose connection with their family or lead to worse situations making it even worse. Also in the radio interview, Missy Remiss, an education

It is suggested by data from NAEP testing that school absences is one of the factors that has a negative impact on student learning and therefore on overall grade point average and test scores. In a table that shows the coloration of school days missed with the percent of student with a 3.0 of higher grade point average, in the Sioux Falls school district in South Dakota, data suggests that as

Student tardy rates have significantly hindered their attendance at CSI zero period classes. This has affected student achievement levels, and the rate at which students are retained in the CSI program, thus leading to a high student retention rate in CSI from year to year. This also results in large CSI class sizes that are not beneficial to student learning. In addition, when interviewing CSI teachers, it is apparent that numerous attempts were made to communicate with parents and remedy the attendance problem, however students continued to show up late to school, or miss zero period completely.

From birth to adulthood, children go through countless emotional, academic and social transitions. Towards the culmination into adulthood, young adults experience a transition from middle school to high school. When students transition from middle school to high school, things change as they head into adulthood, there are several new social and academic adjustments ahead. Such as, peer pressures, navigating a new environment, bigger challenges with classes and homework, and peer pressure. Schools often try to develop programs that will help students successfully make this transition. One tool that can assist in making the transition seamless is an onsite mentoring program at the high school level. A school mentoring program could offer assistance in many areas for example, tutoring, time management, behavior, social skills, and development of positive relationships. At risk students can benefit greatly from a mentoring program. The past decade has seen widespread enthusiasm for school mentoring as a way to address the needs and problems of youth (Herrera, Kauh, Cooney, Grossman & McMaken, 2008). In the last seven to ten years, high school mentor programs have become very popular across the country.

Last Autumn, I received a call from Amir asking me if he could develop a tutoring program for college students. Amir, having recently graduated for the University of Houston, had spent time reflecting on his college experienced and sought to aid others who were going through similar collegiate struggles. Amir quickly formed and established the Undergraduate

Another solution to better America’s education system is to offer free or affordable tutoring. Often, children and teenagers do not understand the material and fear asking questions in class. Providing free or accessible coaching benefits these struggling students. If students are afraid to ask questions, they need a safe and friendly environment that assists students at a low cost. After a couple of tutoring sessions, the tutor can form a systematic, structured learning experience for the student. In addition to this, after the student sees an improvement in their grades, their motivation, and their attitude towards that subject will ameliorate. On the contrary, parents may believe that tutoring is a waste of time and money. Nevertheless,

An additional factor of academic success is the chronic absenteeism rate in school. According to edsight.ct.gov, Connecticut’s online data retrieval website, the statewide chronic absenteeism percentage was 9.6% for 2015-16. Chronic absenteeism, defined in Connecticut Public Act No. 15-225 , is when a student “misses ten percent or greater of the total number of days enrolled in the school year for any reason.” Additionally, in the 2015-16 reporting, students identified as requiring special education services had a chronic absenteeism sate of 18.1% compared to 8.3% of non-special education students. Grade level breakdown indicates that the percentage of students chronically absent increased from 8.4% in 7th grade to 12.9% in 9th grade and a staggering 17.8% in 12th grade statewide.

As a result, it is a challenge to provide appropriate services to them and their families. Dropping out of school, however, is only the end of the more general process of school disengagement, a process that typically begins earlier in the educational career. A strategy is needed to recognize early school disengagement and potential dropout (K. k. h. c. e. Henry, Knight, & Thornberry, 2012).

In recent times, there has been a significant rise in high school dropout rates in United States of America. This issue has significant attention of academics and researchers and is known as "silent epidemic" as more and more American teenagers are dropping out from schools before graduation (Bridgeland, DeIulio& Morison, 200). Reports suggest that the high school dropout rates before graduation in minorities has reached 50 percent since last decade (Bridgeland, DeIulio& Morison, 202, Ferris & West, 69).

One of the things I learned in summer school was the importance of being here. One reason people fail classes is because they do not show up to it. Having to get up during my summer break made me realize that showing up is not that hard at all. When you show up and do what you’re supposed to do or at least put in the effort, you’re going to pass. Also not showing up may not just affect

In the past decade, the issue of high school dropouts has been a major problem in the United States. On the other hand, several studies have shown that in 2015 students are still dropping out, but not nearly at the dropout rate since 2008. Nevertheless, there is still a high school dropout crisis. In today’s society the majority of student’s dropout for reasons such as their financial state at home, the increased teen pregnancy rate, and the pressure of alcohol and drugs.

School attendance problems are something that we need to constantly be aware of and move forward to figure how to support students. Schools, families and the community must work together to develop what is needed to stop the school attendance

    Throughout my years at Lemoore High School, I have had excellent attendance. I don’t like missing school because it leads to make up work and missing important information I need to know.