Therefore, the students can make up the work they missed. Students will then stop ditching and come to school. Schools will save a ton of money and students grades will increase. The result of schools having harsher consequences will be students coming to class more and improved grades. If students don't get punished for not coming to school, then schools will lose money and students will be missing lectures causing them to get bad grades.
Students might want to drop out because they are struggling in school, getting bullied, have a health issue, have personal family problems, or just have a planned out future that doesn't require a high school diploma. Making teens do something they absolutely don't want to do, especially after they are 16, can result in even worse outcomes. “Efforts to raise the age usually come up against the argument that requiring students to stay in school when they no longer want to be there is disruptive to the other students and not fair to the teacher”. Thats a very knowledgeable statement because its true that when teens want to drop out, they want to drop out before they are 18, so they are most likely going to be careless and disrespectful at school. Some teens have personal reasons that are sometimes urgent, and staying in school isn't an option.
(Canon, 2011) Moving and switching schools so frequently can cause a wealth of problems for the military child. Changing schools often can have a negative effect on schooling on its own. If classes in one location are behind classes in another location the child has to catch up to the rest of the class. If some classes do not transfer to another school the child may have to retake classes or even postpone graduation. Research has shown that frequently changing schools has a cumulative effect on academics, often putting a child who moves frequently a year or more behind students who do not move as much.
However, despite of significantly improving the students’ performance, this intervention method has been reported to cause more harm than good. Retained children have consistently been found to display and develop a more negative attitude towards school and their school attendance deteriorate. Grade retention is also reported not only to affect the students’ academic life but their social lives as well, most sixth graders equates this intervention with the stress experienced from losing a parent (Jimerson, 2001). Citing these shortcomings, there is need to explore other intervention alternatives that promotes both the academic and the social welfare of the student. This article will focus on Looping and Multiage classrooms as an alternative intervention to retention.
To understand the post-divorce family you must begin with the consequences it has on family, but for many reasons America’s greatest concern is that of the children. Children are not responsible, but yet reap all of the emotional pains of a divorce. Amato and Thompson (1999) informs us that: The increased expenses and lowered living standards following divorce may create many more specific pressures for children. The family may have to move to a less expensive house or apartment; children may have to change schools; contact with friends in a neighborhood or school may be lost as a result of these changes; the residential parent may have to begin working or work longer hours; children may have to be placed in child
The other side claims that year round school is essential for some, since student often forget a lot during the summer break. Nonetheless, Year round school is definitely not the answer, because it creates family conflict, it creates social problem, and it takes away job opportunities for students during the summer. Year round schooling has been reported to create family conflict due to the change in schedule. The reason why this has become a controversy for families, because children may not be on the same schedule as their sibling. One sibling might be enjoying his or her two month break while the other has to sit in class working.
This is so because of the fact that this is another stressful matter these young minds must also deal with. Home and school stability is another cause to for students dropping out of high school. More than half of dropouts have moved within their four years of being in high school. If a student does not have a stable home or a stable school life, then they are more likely to drop out of school. Stableness allows the student to feel comfortable enough to try to work at school.
Grade Retention: The Pros and Cons of Retaining a Child Lesley University Abstract Grade retention or grade repetition is a controversial, yet increasingly popular, response to students who have not met the academic and/or social standards to be promoted to the next grade level. With the present push for high educational standards, more and more children are facing the possibility of grade retention because they are not achieving the test scores required to move on to the next grade. Grade retention is a complicated and often debated issue for both schools and parents. This literature review will discuss the pros and cons of retaining a child and also present other alternatives to grade retention. What exactly is grade retention and what are the reasons for retaining a student?
Boarding schools are seen by most of the parents as the gateway to success, a privilege that not many could afford for their children. It is a major transition in a child’s life, which is instrumented by the parents with the express desire of ensuring their child’s bright future. This transition from the family life to a boarding school life is sometimes not a smooth process and it could inflict a set of psychological scars on a child’s personality and, on other occasions, it could enhance the child’s potential for success. Joy Sceverien, in his essay “Boarding School: The Trauma of a ‘privileged child’ identifies the problem of ‘double bind’ in which the child is forced to inculcate the parental view regarding the boarding schools, which eventually leads to other psychological damages. On the other hand, Nick Duffel in his ‘Surviving the Privilege of Boarding School’ points out how this transition could force the child into reinventing himself.
“All Year round School” Over the last few years there has been one topic that has been debated very much and is very controversial. That is the issue of having an all year round school calendar. Some people argue that all year round school is a good. They argue that having an all year round School Calendar is a good thing because it improves grades. They say that all year round school is horrible because it takes away summer vacation – that it takes away time for long vacations.