Should Colleges Have Mandatory Attendance Polices

Another significant area for consideration is the responsibility I have to safeguard learners within the class. This includes not only adhering to work place policies and legislations

In the United States, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school every year. This is about one student every 26 seconds or 7,000 students a day. These alarming statistics are unfortunately a reality. Many of these kids face severe consequences throughout their life because of this one bad decision. These challenges could be avoided if students are required to graduate and receive their diploma. Students should be required to stay in school until the age of 18 to protect their well-being, ensure they won’t make a decision that they will likely regret, and give them more opportunities in their adulthood.

“It tarnishes what we’re trying to do as coaches; it tarnishes the idea that kids are here to get an education.” Tad Boyle, Colorado men’s basketball head coach from USAtoday.com. With AAU tournaments and Prep Schools getting them ready for the next level, there is much young basketball talent that is considered “NBA ready” within their first year of college. College basketball players should be required to stay in college for at least three years. With all the hype surrounding them to become young superstars, some athletes and members of NBA front offices don’t realize how important two or three more years of college could be to them. The NCAA has a rule like this set on college football players, so the rule for basketball shouldn’t be any different. These extra three years could give these players more time to develop their skills, physique, and get an education,

Caution would still need to be required as the young adults may ask personal questions about the teacher/support staff, i.e. where you live, if you go out at weekends, questions that really should not be answered but could be replied with a little humour and comments such as my life is boring at weekends, or you would not find what I get up to at weekends interesting.

We need to start thinking of our students as sentient beings capable of an incredibly diverse spectrum of individuality, rather than yet another cog in a never ending machine. For years, we have been oppressed by desires of others, as well as their established social norms. We have become slaves to the way we perceive our society to work, That we must complete work by deadlines, that we must become another's idea of a human being. This world has been established that most all people must complete tasks they never wanted to do. However, it has become that the younger generation of the population has taken much of this obligation. For each day for a student is begun before even the sun chooses to rise, Then, leads to eight hours in an establishment created of dark brick, promising years of pain and suffering through massive workloads of things that may have been intriguing, had they not been presented in such a dull and uninteresting manner. Once this task has been completed, we return to their home where hours of chores and homework await them. Then, each night, they climb into bed, each day bearing more difficultly than the last. This cycle continues for years, the only escape from this cycle being graduating from another brick establishment that has taken all money that one could ever hope to have, and attempting to find a job that might be what you want to do. It is time that we break out of this miserable cycle. This life was meant to be enjoyed by all and to be enjoyed to the fullest. This idea has been broken and shattered beyond recognition, but it still remains. The idea that we can be exactly who we want to be, without having to sell our souls to do so still lingers on, shining, yet unattainable just as a star. We simply must be the glue that binds the broken pieces of this

In professional basketball and football, it is very fun to see young, flashy, and new star athletes to seemingly come out of nowhere. Athletes such as Kobe Bryant and Lebron James jumped straight from high school, went to play professional basketball, and did very well. This seems like a great idea, but also considering the athlete as a person is important. What happens if he does not perform well? He could lose out on a lot of money and could be in big trouble if he did not go to college. Athletes want to become professionals as soon as possible, but they also could consider getting a degree. The issue of making college a requirement for professional football and basketball athletes is one that makes many people wonder if athletes should actually

Why should Dixie State University drop the attendance policy? Attendance should not be required for a grade at Dixie State University. First, they student will fall behind and have to try and make up work. Second, the student may have a valid reason for missing class. Finally, The student is paying to attend the university.

The dream of almost every high school student is to go attend college. These future college freshmen believe that college is all fun and games, but these ignorant youths fail to understand the cost of this enjoyment. That when scrolling through tuition cost they fail to see what else they must pay for. Future students are required to pay for the enjoyment of waking up hours earlier to be able to get to class or pay for some other means to arrive to class on top of tuition. Some reasons that parking should be free is the cost of parking can stack with other costs, it’s not the student’s responsibility to sustain a parking lot, and parking is not available to everyone. Therefore, parking should be included in the tuition that is being paid (not

make sure all goes according to plan and that there is no unethical behaviour from the students

be exempt from the class attendance requirements? The answer is no and here is why. First, the

Often times, a communities job is to educate their citizens. So, if some of those citizens are not coming to school because of an unexcused reason, it it also their job to figure out why. If a school wants students to be successful, truancy should be decriminalized.

Should student Athletes be allowed to skip classes? I would say yes, because most people don't realize how hard they work to keep their grades up, sleep, and train for hours a day. Student athletes must be very stressed out, because they work all day long and some even have to work so they can eat it is a very hard life. So yes sometimes they need to skip a class to get some rest before practice or a big game.Student Athletes also travel to different states for days at a time to compete and miss a lot of class time and when they get back they are far behind and have to work hard to make it up

performing well on their summative evaluations and did not seem to understand the importance of quality class work and homework. I currently teach juniors and seniors in a high school science academy where they are expected to be prepared for college and beyond. The students’ study skills were not evolved to the point where they could be successful in college or the workplace. I wanted the students to understand that they needed to take on the responsibility for learning and acquiring new skills which is expected in college work and in today’s changing and

As schools seek new programs and ideas for increasing student attendance, one of the two most frequently mentioned tactics in the literature are having an effective attendance policy and increasing communication with parents and guardians. According to Dan Vandivier (2003), a high school principal, attendance policies must be stringent and must also be persistently adhered to. He states that policies must be fair and also have “flexibility to accommodate mitigating circumstances” (Vandivier, 2003, p. 81). Vandivier’s new attendance policy no longer distinguished between excused and unexcused and allowed administration discretion in dealing with excessive absences for legitimate reasons (Vandivier, 2003, p. 81). Dougherty (1999) agrees that schools must produce a clear fair attendance policy that is up to date and standardized and communicate it.

Mandatory attendance in college has many opinions and is highly debated subject. Colleges and professors want students to attend their classes so they can teach them directly, but students want to have a freedom to manage their time and attendance. Students are adults and they want to be respected for their decisions. They are investing their time and money, and nobody should force them to sit in a class that will not be productive for them. Regularly attending a class will not improve their academic performance in that class.