High School Truancy

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High School Truancy
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What is Truancy?

• Truancy is the first sign of trouble in a young
  persons life.
• When children start missing school this is a
  major sign to their parents, school officials,
  and the community that they are either in trouble
  or increasingly at risk of developing significant
  negative behaviors.

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What causes truancy?

• Truancy begins with feelings of boredom,
  dissatisfaction, and negative behavior.
• Some students remain away from class due to the
  bullying from other students.

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How many students are actually truant?

• Each day there are thousands of students who are
  absent from school without a legitimate excuse.
• Each year districts reinvent programs and
  policies to keep students in school.
• Plans include strategies to decrease the number
  of truancies each day.

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• Some local programs donated new cars to be
  raffled off at the end of the year to families
  with students who had perfect attendance.
• However, nearly 15 of the citys students were
  ineligible for the raffle after the first week of
  school.

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• Our community leaders are determined to design
  ways to entice, counsel, threaten, or coerce
  children back into attending school.
• Most of these programs are based on the
  assumption that the causes of truancy lie within
  the family.
• Responsible school leaders are determined to make
  sure every student is in class and getting the
  education they deserve.

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• Over 50,000 families in the U.K. have chosen to
  remove their children from school and provide
  home school educational plans for them.
• One of the most common reasons was due to
  bullying and the schools refusal to do anything
  about it.
• Other reasons Religious and Political

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Skipping Classes

• Truancy is merely one symptom of many factors in
  a childs life which prevent regular school
  attendance.
• The short-term and long-term effects of truancy
  ripple throughout the family, the school, and the
  surrounding community.

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How Does TruancyEffect Learning?

• Studies have found that habitually truant
  students often struggle academically
• They do not have friends who attend school
  regularly
• They see no compelling reasons to attend or stay
  in school
• Many have feelings of being socially isolated
  from the mainstream community

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Does Truancy LeadTo Delinquent Behavior?

• Truancy can become the beginning of a lifetime of
  social and economics problems
• These students start to academically fall behind
  in their classes

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• Some, without assistance, will gradually
  transition to dropping out of school completely
• Often, leaving school is easier than staying and
  catching up
• Some researchers have concluded that truancy
  becomes one stepping stone on a path towards
  delinquent and criminal behavior

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• Our community goal should be to prevent truancy
  and design systems to help students remain
  academically engaged in their home schools
• One plan developed in Tustin recovers students
  found out of school and places them in an
  intervention location where their parents are
  notified and counseling is begun
• This model can be a good plan when the
  assessments, interventions, and follow through
  are conducted by skilled and effective clinicians

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• Teen truancy is on the rise all over the U.S.
• Truancy is the responsibility of the school,
  parents, and the community

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• Truant students are at a higher risk for behavior
  that involves drugs, alcohol, and violence.
• Statistics show that many day time crimes are
  being reported because students are committing
  crimes instead of going to class.

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• Today's students are our future
• Truancy effects all of us
• Educational budget planning needs to include a
  people and strategies to assist children to
  remain in school
• These adolescents will be adults soon and its
  worth our investment in their future as much as
  it is in own best interest