First of all, the rules of the attendance policy are strict. The attendance policy does not distinguish between excused or unexcused absences. I do not think that having an unexcused absence is the same as an excused absence. I think that there should be a difference between an excused absence and an unexcused absence. Secondly, the policy is placed to help college students be more responsible. But, I feel like having a attendance policy is not teaching student to be responsible but it is placed there to act like a parent. In high school, some parents would wake their children up to go to school and it was mandatory but, the attendance policy is acting like the parents by forcing them to go to class. College students should learn responsibility by facing the consequences for not going to class. In the professional world, the employers are not going to have an attendance sheet going around to see if their employees are in. the employees have to take responsibility and show up and face the punishment if they do not show up for work. I think that certain classes should be a little stricter on their attendance policy. Fro the classes that are more vital to the professional world should apply an attendance policy that would help students learn but not force them to go to…
Also, a quite common reason for students to miss their classes or don't attend school at all is often caused by the lack of gas money. Gas prices are getting up constantly, and it's tricky to have a social life without all of your money evaporating from your wallet. Sometimes being a student does pay off. Even though the difficulty of coming to class, most college students try their best to do so, and it’s harder for those who don’t receive any help. These are some conflicts that make students feel forced to miss their classes. Bad college attendance may then increase the…
They back talk teachers, skip class, and get up and leave class. Some students don’t care about school and their grades, most of them don’t even do their homework and half the time they fail test/quizes. So they’ll probably be a decrease in grades, and maybe even an increases in absents. On the other hand there’s students who want to learn, get good grades, and they take the time to study for tests/quizes so they don’t fail. But they may be getting home later so they won’t have time to study or do homework, but if they study they’ll be going to bed late so in the morning they may be feeling tired and worn out.…
Good knowledge of the subject. A teacher with a good knowledge of the subject matter can teach better as they are the specialist in the classroom. Questions can be answered immediately and without reference to a textbook, and this gives the students more confidence in the teacher and this helps to maintain motivation and a confidence in what is being taught.…
There may be more crime if students dropout they will be in the streets hanging out.Also,they may be turning to drugs and if they do not have the money to support their habit,they can commit other crimes such as robbery,assault or even murder.THey may live on the streets and they can get money by stealing to get drugs.…
Every student that comes in your classroom gains and uses the information in different ways: this is done by seeing, hearing, touching, analyzing. As our students are different so are the teaching styles which also may vary from person to person. I have learnt that if a teacher does not try to understand the students in their class there will be a problem passing on the knowledge to their students. and the students will become bored if they are not interested in the subject, it is up to the teacher to make it interesting so they can reach all students.…
In contrast, there are days when nothing is going right or there are obstacles that are keeping students from paying attention in class. Students sometimes feel tired from waking up so early in the morning that causes them to fall asleep in class. It is perfectly acceptable for students to slack off a day or two when they are not feeling well. Despite these…
Another reason, attendance policies do not do a good job of reflecting the importance of a class. Furthermore the inconsistent attitudes professors have towards them are confusing to student. Therefore, when faces with so many varying opinions on the importance or unimportance of attendance policies, students lose the basic point. However, every student should attend all classes. Not only are professor there to teach you in the first place, you paid to learn. Not going to class is essentially throwing money away while pretending to be a student.…
This type of policy gives advantages by not only ensuring classroom attendance, but by making it very clear to the students what will happen if they miss class excessively. A different version of this policy is found at…
Students, who tend to bad in a certain class, tend to have an attitude of not caring for that class. A situation like that can affect how the student is doing in is other class, especially the ones he/she is doing well in. The stress can have a toll on them, when your stress out who tend to care less, because you can have the feeling that they’re not going to get anywhere. Not caring is going to cause them to not want to put in the dedication and work that is going to be involved in improving themselves in the class their doing bad in. Habits of studying, listening and participation is developed when…
Being absent ultimately causes you to miss the most essential parts of class. You miss class participation, peers, directions and test or quizzes that may be given on any given day of that class. Being absent is a way of saying that this class isn’t that important to me. As a peer in your class if I work hard just like you but you receive the same grade as I do but are never there, that doesn’t send a great message to me nor to the rest of our peers. Being a student requires you to attend class on a regular basis.…
When listening to the professor you can grasp how to correctly do the homework assignments. If a student did not listen to what was being taught during the class it would be impossible to learn about a subject the professor talked about. Not paying any attention in class can make it hard for a student to understand what is going on during class. It can result to students making bad grades and…
It’s true that education has always played an important part in our lives, but studying without understanding ever helps one in its professional life. We have seen a lot of college students including myself like to study a night before our exams, which could give us a result of a failure. Our results are based on our learning power, and if our learning power is lesser then the course material then it will make us feel as if we are in some deep trouble. The problem is not that we are in some trouble of failing the course or getting dropped from class because we can’t make it, but the problem is that our teachers should encourage us and make our course easier for us to understand. How can a teacher do that? As O’ Malley said by give student’s in-class tests, quizzes after every chapter or part of study, and give assignments to do, so…
Truancy can occur among students if an open campus is accepted. If students have the privilege to leave school for fifty whole minutes on their own, then they have the freedom to not come back. It would break the trust between students and educators, and harsher rules would have to be enforced on the open campus rule. Numerous students who decide to ditch the remaining periods would have an excessive amount of in-school absences. This could lead to parent conferences and suspension, and possibly expulsion in some cases. When a student misses or skips a class, the information taught that day would not be accessible in the same format which others have learned. One's academic grades can be effected from lack of information by truancy. Irresponsible students who choose to take the risk of leaving their school after lunch for the remainder of the day will not have this opportunity if an open campus is kept closed.…
It's hard enough to get kids to take their education seriously when it's compulsory, I can't imagine the number of kids who would totally give up on the idea if they actually had a choice in the matter. “Mandatory attendance laws force many to attend school who have no wish to be there… The solution to this problem is simple: Abolish compulsory- attendance laws and allow only those who are committed to getting an education attend”. This is what Roger Sipher wrote in his article “So that nobody has to go to school if they don’t want to” that was published in the “New York Times” on December 22, 1997. The author states that mandatory attendance laws should be abolished because they force the people who have no wish of learning to attend school, that they get the teacher, and the dedicated kids of topic. I disagree with sipher’s argument that getting rid of mandatory attendance laws would improve the education system because every kid is entitled to an education and by abolishing these laws it would give kids the option of going to school. It would hurt the countries’ economy and the countries’ education system and it would look bad at an international level. By abolishing these laws parents would not get notified of when their kids are not in school, and this could eventually lead to a tragedy one day.…