Causes of Student Absenteeism in Sibonga National High School

Huge amount of literature depicts that absenteeism refers to kind of withdrawn or deviant behavior towards work. It also refers to students who are absent for reasons beyond their control, like sickness and injury, it is culpable which means that it is blameless. Absenteeism is not only limited up to being absent from work , and it also includes a kind of behavior like coming late, going early, going show at work, extending lunch breaks etc.
On the other hand chronic absence is the context of the school and it is the habitual or intentional failure from going to school. It cannot be denied that every now and then, students may miss some school activities and lessons. But it becomes a problem if the student will be away from school for many days. Chronic absentee students are placed at disadvantages both socially and academically. They miss out critical stages of social interaction and development with their peers and at the same time impacts negatively on their academic progress. This can result to self- esteem, social isolation and dissatisfaction could well have precipitated non- attendance in the first place.
In addition, absenteeism in students affects their school performances especially when they are in a group or teamwork for their assignments and projects. Since grouping will help develops the students cooperative and ability to share and gain knowledge from the absent of the student ( koppernhaver 2003). The mission of this output is to educate the students to know what absenteeism is its, causes and helps them to lessen their absences at the school. The vision is the student will have a perfect attendance in all day and there will be no work of absences in the attendance book of their teachers. The purpose of this project is to determine the absences of the students. To know many students are not attending there class and what is the common day that they’re always absent base on the attendance sheet below and also to help them how to lessen their absences in their class.

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Based on Timothy Kate Community Relations Coordinator Eneze Education Ltd. the absenteeism is caused by many factors. First, Phobic Adolescence. During this stage in the growth of a teen, there’s a lot of fear developed as a result of physical turbulent emotions and etc. Students could be lacking interest in the study. Which could be as a result of content that is difficult for them to grasp hence pushing the away from school. Schools should strive to have update learning facilities as well as supporting facilities to make students enhance retention, because if we don’t stop the student from his or her absences it will become his/her habitual pattern. Causes of absenteeism may include,
 Serious accident and may be ill
 Personal problem (financial, marital, substance abuse, child care)
 Stress
Society also suffers when school-age children are not in school. These children may hang out on the streets. Since they have nothing to do, they resort to petty crimes like stealing other people’s belongings and property. Others may become addicted to drugs or engage in other destructive behavior. Thus, if a student keeps away from school for too long, he may grow up to be a liability to his community and his country as a whole.
It is the aim of every school to lessen, if not eradicate, absenteeism among its students. One way of addressing this problem is to identify the causes of truancy. Once they are singled out, understood, and analyzed, these issues may be addressed with specific actions and measures. This will eventually result in the better performance of the students, teachers, and the school in general. It is in this context that this action research was undertaken, that is, to identify the causes why the grade VI students in this school absent themselves from their classes. The one who benefits this project are those students who always get involved in absenteeism. They would benefits the possible outcome of this particular program. They will inform and might be provided more update and educational ideas why we need to minimize absenteeism. Students who get excessive pocket money from their families are most likely to absent themselves from school since they need time to spend the money. The materials must be providing with this program are most likely Entertainment: Accessibility Entertainment Facilities like cinemas could divert attention of some students from school. Absenteeism can lead to depression and also as result in poor quality of education. Most of the people or individual get involved are specially the students, parents, teachers, and the faculty staff members. As a result of time lost while being away from school. It could also lead to moral degradation that leads unruly behavior. This program will be remedied but providing adequate co-curricular activities to students. Educate the students on how to take care of their overall well-being emphasis should be given to oral health and overall body wellness. Teach them how to avoid communicable diseases. Give them information on how to properly wash their hands, which is the main source of germs and bacteria among children. Let them develop proper eating habits. Since most of the children in the school come from poor families, point out to them the cheap but healthy foods. Ask them to pass on this information to their parents. Give extra attention to those who are left behind in the lessons. Tap the bright pupils to teach their slower classmates. In other words, cooperative learning should be practiced in the teaching-learning process. Once a slow student fully understands the lesson, he/she can keep up with his/her other classmates, thus self-confidence is gained. We aim to post or upload this in WordPress to help educate the students to lessen their absences at particular subjects like ICT. The scope of our study is the students, school, administration, parents and teachers. We will also be using our resources so the finding for this project will be close to none and it will be maintain and obtain its mission and vision. We will also be using free services already offered by our WordPress.com