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Truancy in Teenagers
By Nivea David
Truancy is something that was easier to deal with in our parent's day. It is define as the dictionary calls 'the act or condition of being absent without permission' were standard. A good lashing helped clear up any doubt as to the relevant authorities' feelings on the subject. For better or worse, corporal punishment is out. And, lets face it, it was pretty primitive, but how delightfully unambiguous. The dichotomy of crime and punishment regarding our teens has now assumed a more nuanced relationship. Once again, the more we know about the implications of acts of disobedience -- emotional, symptomatic and psychological -- the murkier it gets.
If you as a parent become impatient and cease communication know that the consequences of this kind of societal sidelining often results in a long unhappy life lived outside of the comforts of community and a sense of worth. If parents don't know about their children's behavior how are they supposed to respond and curb the problem. There were no detentions for tardiness, no parent's notified, nothing. How you deal with the situation is crucial. Parents are upset with a school's policies, they need to stop thinking just about their child and think instead about the entire problem from all sides of the issue. If your child is unable to speak to you don't be discouraged.
When your child decides to skip school, not just once, but chronically, this normally means that society, the custodian of the child, is somehow not serving this one individual. Truancy can be broadly divided into two categories: those teens that skip off school once in a blue moon and those that are away from school more often than they are there. Truancy is often a standard response to trouble at home.
Truancy is not defined by being in a place, it is what the person is doing there. Tardy students are truant because they are loitering in a public place instead of in class. Sicing the truancy cops on these kids sounds like overkill. These types of overzealous administrators seem to get turned on by all this "discipline." Truancy is defined as "to loiter, idle, wander, stroll or play" in a public place, and students are not in class, but wandering around campus, which is a public place, then how are you arguing that they are not truant? We have kids at our school who never attend class, yet never leave campus - are they not truant? Truancy is not defined by being in a place, it is what the person is doing there.
School truancy is a common outcome of bullying. Bullied children prefer to risk getting caught bunking off school than to get caught by the bullies. Around 4% of UK children truant persistently, according to data from a Youth Cohort Study, whilst around half of all children truant at some time in England. Offers advice about making friends, why life hurts, developing self confidence, bullies, saying no to drugs and feeling good about being a teenager. There are many causes of truancy ranging from violent antisocial behavior, to boredom and disaffection, to escaping daily bullying which schools are failing to deal with. Not everyone is academically minded, and academic qualifications are one of the poorest indicators of potential.
Some experts cite bullying at school as a significant cause of truancy. Here the desire to escape ongoing exposure to torture causes the victims to take the matter into their own hands. Because it is rarely purely plain antisocial, taking it seriously means opening communication, not shutting it down with threats and punishments. Communication needs to be your first response. Before you bring the school into the picture you need to do some serious emotional detective work. Your teen is probably not going to volunteer information. When you scratch the surface of many incidents of truancy in teens you come up with actions that are sometimes appropriate or at least understandable responses to inappropriate circumstances. Because chronic truancy is potentially the beginning of a profound disjunctive with society as a whole, it must be treated as serious.
Truancy is the first sign of trouble; the first indicator that a young person is giving up and losing his or her way. To avoid the Truancy in teenagers deferent adolescents in the program with peer group support, as well as reward desired behavior, a Youth Council organized a variety of group activities--trips to movies and an arts festival, a visit to the local juvenile detention center and talk sessions to share feelings and concerns. To maintain the program's focus on the total family and to dispel parental concern over one child receiving attention for "bad" behavior, siblings were also encouraged to participate.
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