Cause and Effect for Omani Students

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Many foreign teachers are amazed at the number of absences that Omani students think are acceptable when they come off to college. In most countries around the world, no student are allowed to miss more than two to five percent of their classes in a semester. Students at SCT are permitted to miss up to fifteen percent of their classes in a single semester. There are many bad effects of missing too many classes at SCT. Here are the three most important bad effects of missing too many classes and not practicing enough English. First, the most important reason that students hurt themselves when they don’t attend class is that they do not spend enough time speaking, writing, listening, reading, and practicing English language and vocabulary. When time-spent-practicing English per-student is too low, students cannot move from one level to the next in the Foundation program easily. If they are lucky enough to pass to a higher level or even to pass all four levels in the Foundation English, the students have either cheated or depended too much on others to do their work, i.e. students are not passing exams and foundation levels through their own effort. So, the students are not becoming responsible adults, e.g. responsible for their own marks or grades. Second, because it is often true that students who do not attend classes regularly at the Foundation level either cheat or depend on others to do their work for them, these same students have trouble in all of their Post-Foundations courses, too. Students have trouble in their post-foundation courses because their English skills and math skills are weak. Soon they may not pass the other SCT courses nor get good grades. This means that the recommendations from professors will not be very good. That will make it harder to find a job. Third, because of low
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