Causes of School Truancy

 Truancy is the act of deliberately missing one or more classes. This phenomenon has numerous reasons. First, socio-economic problems cause students to miss classes. That is to say, when parents cannot afford to buy school materials or pay school fees, students will certainly ditch classes. Also, some students may skip classes because of school phobia or fear. This means that when students find it difficult to get along with teachers, students and school staff they are bound to be absent from school. Besides, bad grades affect students negatively and impact their attitude towards school. So, they sluff school when they find themselves lagging behind their classmates. In addition, bad company may lead to school truancy. To put it differently, bad friends do not encourage students to take their studies seriously. On the contrary, they teach them how to drink, smoke, prostitute and so on. As the proverb says, “birds of a feather go together”. Finally yet importantly, bullying can lead to truancy. Bullies may use force, threats, and intimidation to hurt, scare and overpower vulnerable students and thus make them stop going to school. Therefore, it is parents’, teachers’, and school administrators’ responsibility to work together to minimize the rate of school truancy.   

Country Life vs City Life

 

Many people say that “God first made the country and then, the city” to promote the beauty of the country over the ugliness of the city. However, both city life and country life have advantages and disadvantages.

On the one hand, the countryside is superior to towns in many respects. It has many charms and benefits like peace and quiet, fresh air, colorful and fascinating sights, vast meadows and lovely landscapes, simple life, interdependence between People who work together and look out for one another, and so on. But, on the negative side, the country usually lacks adequate infrastructures like road networks public transport, modern health care, shops and coffee shops etc.

on the other hand, city life provides many services and facilities that country life doesn’t. Hospitals, malls, amusement and recreational establishments, better schools, colleges and other educational institutions, numerous jobs or career opportunities etc., are some of the facilities that are found only in towns and cities. However, city life has its negative points. These are deficiencies include expensive cost of living, pollution from cars and trucks and factories, dirty and noisy roads, the lack of fresh air and good diet to mention only a few.

On the whole, both the city and the country are equally important with their disadvantages and benefits as the facilities of one are the drawbacks of the other and vice-versa. So, the choice to live in town or country can be made depending on one’s character, personality and profession.

 

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