Truancy From School
by School going children are now playing truant from schools. Government schools which have strict regimental rules and regulations get rid of pupils who flout their regulations. The case isn’t the same with private schools which are grappling with problems related to truancy. Pupils of private schools know that the school is dependent on the fees they pay and therefore hold the school at ransom.
Teaching in private schools has its advantages and disadvantages. But the problems that private schools face are related to the fact that the private schools are dependent on fees collected from the pupils who attend these schools. Many of those pupils attending private schools are school drop-outs or those who have had problems in the government schools that follow rigid programmes and rules.
Teachers working in private schools need to use innovative methods to get children to learn. The teachers are pressured to put up with behaviour of pupils not accepted in the government schools and thus these teachers sometimes ignore the fact that they are disciplinarians apart from being disseminators of knowledge. The principals or heads of the private schools too face problems with irritated parents who demand a lot from the schools just because they pay the teachers salaries.
Truancy is one major set back in private schools as the school cannot afford to do away with the fees that those who play truant pay the schools. As a result of truancy, academic achievements of pupils in these schools drop though the teachers are well qualified and are duty bound.
I would welcome readers to give their views and opinions to the current situations in private schools.
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Post CommentDreamy777
On May 6, 2011 at 10:59 am
great one
sanataryal
On May 6, 2011 at 11:03 am
Very interesting article.Thnx for posting.
megamatt09
On May 6, 2011 at 11:20 am
It does tend to be a problem, hopefully it can be rectified, as it is doing everyone a disservice.
LewSethics
On May 6, 2011 at 5:05 pm
We can’t get rid of the kids so maybe we should get rid of the school system.
The biggest disservice to everyone is the unfounded belief that it takes twelve years to educate a person.
A formal Education is not necessary for most of the jobs we do everyday, and it certainly doesn’t take twelve years to learn how to operate machinery or a computer or farm equipment or a bus.
Educators are too high on themselves, and sometimes forget that any normal kid could be taught to do math and language skills in a few months if they didn’t have to switch subjects all day.
Besides math and language skills formal education is just another self serving monopoly.
We have the disciplinary problem because we are trying to put a round peg into a square hole. The kids aren’t bad, but they hate being where they are. Put some tools in their hands and some money in their pockets and they’ll be OK.
Home schooling with computers and apprenticeships are superior teaching methods as they solve all disciplinary problems.
If you close the schools the libraries will be full of the people that want to learn, and the rest don’t want to learn so why force them? How many egos will be spared from the whole grading system, which doesn’t guarantee anything?
Lastly, most small businesses (mom and pop stores, small repair shops, barbers and hairdressers, tailors and seamstresses, small landscapers, and such) are run by people that have less than a ninth grade education and they are perfectly happy.
shobhana
On May 6, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Thanks LewSethics for your alternative suggestion. I remember watching Discovery Channel’s native education systems in primitive societies where the young adults are given gruelling tests on reaching manhood. Home schooling programmes too have to be tailored to suit individual needs and the individual has to be put to a test as well. I do agree that some subjects taught in schools become useless to the individual with time.
lapasan
On May 6, 2011 at 8:40 pm
In the Philippines, my country, the situation is different. Private schools teach and discipline pupils far better than in public schools. The reason is that better schools attract families who can afford to have better education for their children. Poorer families send their children to public schools. And it always happen that children who are exposed to not so good environment belong to poor families who cannot afford private education.
priyadarshani
On May 8, 2011 at 2:22 pm
I children are very much into such situation, they are pressurized so much, that they are not interested in going to school.
mahesh golani
On May 12, 2011 at 2:00 am
There is no cure for this problem. so endure!
Kalpita Chakrabortty
On May 15, 2011 at 5:03 am
Very informative article.Thanks for the same
R K Vajpeyi
On May 19, 2011 at 10:56 am
You have hit the nail on the head. It is commercial interest ranking before much publicized charity for education in private school.
Money will continue to rule the behavior and guardians/parents shall continue to evade responsibility, for ever if the trend continues.
Even I shall be happy to know about suggestions of other readers with similar experiences.