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Importance of Attendance
that, The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to
quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to make
Act of 2001. Along with Republic Act 6655 or the Free Secondary
Education Act, these laws reaffirm the policy of the State to protect and
pertains to six years of free tuition fees for children aged 6 to 11, and free
Among the issues that needs to be resolved but have improved lately
include the high dropout rates, high number of repeaters, low passing
The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in January 2002,
schools, as well as more flexibility for states and local agencies in how
they use federal education dollars, in the US. In the Philippines, the
Department of Education has also adhered to the Education for All Policy
regardless of his or her social status because in the first place, education
absenteeism. http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml
Going to school regularly is crucially important for a students
(McCray, 2006). Webster further defines the word chronic as that which
truancy and school phobia, terms that together can provide greater
However, truancy and school phobia are specific terms that are linked to
possible underlying reasons for not attending school, and while touched
upon will not be the focus of this effort. Instead, chronic school
absenteeism will be used, as the term is more general and denotes the
social interaction and development with their peers and at the same time
first place.
attendance. Only in the classroom may the student hear the teacher's
no surprise that students with high absence rates earn lower grades
than students with better attendance (Redick & Nicoll 1990). Fleming
and Zafirau found that over three-fourths of school failure rates were
Consequences of Absenteeism:
delinquents
There are both personal and societal costs of dropping out. The
every taxpayer. Each year's class of dropouts will cost the country over
$200 billion (Hale, 2014) or more than Php 92 Trillion Pesos during their
lifetimes in lost earnings and unrealized tax revenue. Dropouts comprise
and Steinberg, L. (2003)). This cost does not take into consideration the
costs of adjudicating the crimes that sent these dropouts to prison and
three times higher for high school dropouts than for those who finished
high school. The following students are at risk of dropping out due to too
predictor of dropping out of school. This is also interlinked with too many
Schools (2014) said that poor grades, low test scores and poor
problems. Students who drop out are more likely to have a history of
serious behavioral problems that those who complete high school, and
this history may be traces back from their primary grade levels wherein
their students in the fear that these students, when retained will be their
early indicator that the student is disengaging from the schooling process
Program is a program that caters to the need of those who want to finish
(http://www.depedmakati.org/ohss)
middle school in Karachi. The primary aim of the study was to improve
commit too many absences for the whole school year. After the weeks of
intervention the post test was carried out using the similar measures.
Md. Ph. D. and Kamal, Norlaina, (2012), one of the members of the
Students who are not motivated, hence, will usually decide not to be
collect the information needed. The quantitative data was analyzed using
Asmawati, Aroff, Abdul Rahman Md. Ph. D. and Kamal, Norlaina, (2012).
found that school children in the United Kingdom are inclined not to go
to school or choose not to attend certain classes during the school hours.
concern is that the spread of the truancy problem has given rise to
explicitly that truancy was, and stiil is, a behavior that violates school
race and religion. The act of truancy among students occurs when there
2006 and 21,060 in 2007, were found to have committed truancy. Of the
students who stay away from school without permission will not only be
left behind in the learning process, but worse still they will probably end
from school are related concerns. There are many factors why children
factor (Hussein, 1993; Tan, 2006). All of these factors have resulted in
have also shown that students who do not support and participate in any
school (She, 2002). This study has attempted to revisit and identify
reason their truant friends were not motivated to attend school or why
Students in the said National High School. Findings to this study show
students can have since they are absent. This conclusion is not so far to
description of Good, the teachers also sees absenteeism as not good nor
mean which means that outside influences may be one of the factors that
connected with his fellow student. In their study, Gonzaga et. At.
of fair. And that indicator 4 and 9 got the peak of the lowest that had a
from the results that the teachers sees a great difference in the
follows:
Environment)
6. Dental Problems
Issues. Flu and fever are the leading culprits in this category. Oral
reason why pupils or students are absent, is just one of the least reasons
High School for the school year 2013-2014 and as shown in the result of
Mrs. Batingal also emphasized in her study that one of the topmost
factors why students are being absent or commit too many absences is
foregoing reasons:
siblings,
b. parents work far from their homes and the students are the ones who
c. their parents have to tell their children to be absent for the latter to
children no one will get rich in going to school, no job will be given to
their children after studying, and going to school will only complicate
e. parents sent their children somewhere far from school to have these
hope that they can have better lives if they work than for them to have
finished their studies. Therefore, based on these facts from the study of
Batingal (2014). There were some certain questions that lead to the
data from over 700 school district in New York State 1986-1987. It
includes that provisions plays a big rule like (the number of unused leave
miss a larger number of days than those who did not. Teachers with
marks do not feel a connection to the workplace and believe they are
years for low performing teachers than the later in year (Pitkoff, 1993).
to change the way they structured improves the quality of the courses
and intensity interpersonal relationship between teachers and students