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INTRONG MALALA!
Cutting classes, absences, and adherence are factors to consider in checking the
attendance of a student which is 10% of the final grade. This 10% has been ignored by a titanic
number of people as it is almost of no consequence especially when it stands next to the 40%
Term Exam. It is the most neglected criteria; though if one would dive into its value, you’d see
that missing consecutive meetings would mean missing recitation, instructions/discussions,
probably even a quiz. Credits to curiosity, I’d like to explore the creative minds of the students of
the College of Education and come about the reasons why we choose to be present in school,
but not in class.
I don’t coz they don’t. For years we’ve developed a feeling of familiarity to this cliché.
We’d rather choose to roam around the campus, sit comfortably on the benches and bask in the
heat of the sun at par with the warmth of the conversation with our fellow delinquents. We
choose not to do the mundane task of attending classes and just basically, do nothing. How does
this come about? One of the top dreadful feelings is loneliness. Especially with Filipinos, we are
commonly dependent to each other, ergo, we tend to travel in packs, perform our activities in
packs, we even go to the comfort room in packs, at the least-attend in classes in packs. A study
was conducted last 2012 by students of Laboratory High School regarding the correlation of peer
pressure and juvenile delinquency; They found out that 76 percent of the school’s general
population has a tendency to cut class, and guess what their major reason is—peer pressure.
Children of ages 14-17 has a higher tendency to be affected by peer pressure. It significantly
lessens as people mature, but it is still the King of all skipping class reasons.