Truancy

Truancy is one of the disciplinary problem, which frequently occurs among school students and it often becomes a prelude to other delinquent behaviours. Besides that, truancy also has been labelled one of the top ten major problems in many country's schools and it is affecting the future of our youth negatively. In this aspect, truancy is a grave concern to all components of society which caused by schools, family factors and personal factors.
First and foremost, school factors play a major role in influencing students to play truant. Ineffective and poor record of school attendance policies cause the truancy difficult to spot early on. This causes the students to take the opportunity to skip school without being detected and after a long time, will become a bad habit. Besides that, an unwelcoming atmosphere of learning environment and teaching methods will increase their likelihood of skipping school. Bullying is a prime component in the making of an unsafe school environment and this will cause students to play truant. On the other hand, some of the teachers rush to cover all the topics of syllabus within a limited time frame, resulting many students rather to play truant because not be able to keep up with the teaching methods and school works.
Apart from that, family factors also one of the common causes of truancy. This is because, parents who have only low educational level are putting a low value on education. They are more likely to not be involved in their children’ school because they do not understand the important of education. Therefore, students will not attend to school because they do not have the encouragement from their parents to support them to success in educational. On the other hand, truancy also related to the financial problems in a family. Families with low-income may not have the ability to send their children to school and they prefer their children to help them out at home than go to school. Therefore, lack of parental attention and