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Students who are always late in class not only lose valuable instruction for
themselves,they also disturb class, interfere with lessons in progress, and
disrupt other students’concentration. They also interrupt those busy teachers who
are not able on guiding students in their remedial because they have something to do
their school-works such as grades of the students, lessons, etc.
Educators agree that prompt and regular school attendance is an important key
to a student’s success. Students should be taught to demonstrate respect for staff and
for peers, and one way to do this is to practice prompt and regular school attendance.
Punctuality is a trait parents should instil in their children.Not only will this be
valuableduring the elementary and secondary school years, but it will also serve your
children well incollege and beyond, when punctuality is up to them alone.
Most of the students incur tardiness if they were not able to wake up early
because they were not able tosleep on time; some were doing a lot of things at night,
especially household chores. Some werehaving their review late but mostly keeping
their selves busy wasting time in the internet,chatting with friends, and texting. There
may, on occasion, be an illness or emergency that causesyour child to be late or absent
from school. Consequently, they will just take an absence, so everytime they wake up
late, they will just take another absence, and soon to be a habit. Sometimesstudent
absents because they are afraid of something in school like strict teachers, they do
nothave something that to be pass on that day, sometimes they absent because they
are tired or donot want to go to school because of nothing.
Maria Aurora National High School is the only secondary school offering Senior
High School in Maria Aurora West. Most of the Grade 11 students from barangays far
from school are having problems with their transportation and some are from
disadvantaged families that could not support all of their needs. Those students are
often late in flag ceremony and unable to attend the first subject because of
consequences.The classes always start late everyday.
LITERATURE FOUNDATION
Statistics specify that the greater majority of school children either come from
single parent or two working parents’ home, where one is not available to take care of
the child in order to maintain his punctuality and regularity. Sometimes the child has to
perform chores around the home, including, in the case of the older siblings, the
responsibility of the younger children. In such cases, the children are too tired to wake
up in the morning and attend school on time (Pope, 2003). As it is apparent from the
above stated, that psychological variables are a key determinant of tardiness and
absenteeism. Within the context of this finding, one of the solutions to absenteeism
appears to lie in the fortification of students’ sense of belonging both through the
enhancement of teachers’ levels of professional commitment and parents sense of
responsibility towards their kids.
Apart from the above mentioned causes, the literature on tardiness indicated,
nutrition is an important cause of both tardiness and absenteeism. Studies on the
relationship between diet and the defined research problem have directly identified
nutrition as the source behind tardiness. In the first place, and as Taras (2005) reports
that malnutrition has an adverse effect on both cognitive functioning and energy levels.
Students who suffer either form of malnutrition generally tend towards high tardiness
and absenteeism rates. The reason is very simple that they don’t have the energy to
come to school on time. That means, that apart from the fact that they do not have the
physical energy required to do their school work, they lose whatever motivation they
have. (Taras, 2005).
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
OVERALL PURPOSE
This is mainly for the purpose of helping the students become punctual and more
attentive in class to improve their grades and become more productive.