REASONS FOR CUTTING CLASSES OF SHS STUDENTS IN SAN ROQUE

NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SY 2019-2020

A research paper
Submitted to the Senior High School Department
San Roque National High School

In partial fulfillment of the requirements

For Practical Research 1
TVL EPAS

ISAIAH JAME PIOC

KHAREN TAMBIS
ANGEL JUNAH CAGOBCOB
MARIEL JUMAWAN
JOSEPH JAGASAN
FLOYD CUIZON
GLEN FORD SUAREZ
 Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

As we can see, some students waste their opportunity to study, as it is written in

the chapter four of the another research - entitled, the “Unveiling of the dark side of

Education”. The status of one’s education will tell what is job fitted for him/her. Albert

Einstein from the Answers.com one said, “Try not to be a person of success, but rather

try to become a person of value.”, because, yes, you could succeed on everything if you

wanted it, but are there any values and lessons learned in the process? If you are a person

of value, the people around you will also see the value of your existence and the success

with joy and peace, you can bring. We can also consider that those students who study

well has an opportunity to study, as it is also written in the chapter two of an

another research, the ‘Unveiling of the dark side of Education’, “Cutting classes

obviously decreases the need opportunities for them to learn. All the important lessons

they need to learn in order to become academically competent, instead of learning, they

are ruining their lives with vices”. For them, taking studying seriously may be hard. Ever

since, students who cut class has always been a problem of the teachers. But what could

be the reason of these students why they cut their classes? The researchers are going to

conduct a research study focusing on the students of San Roque National High School,

including the junior high school students. The researchers will make an interview and

survey to know the reasons of these students and to get the teachers’ and parents’

perception about this issue. And when this research became successful, it will help the

teachers and parents resolve the problem of these students that cut their classes.

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Statement of the Problem

Students who cut their class are one of the burdens of the teachers and

parents, also in our society. One of the most reasons of these students who fail in their

grades is cutting their classes, the curiousness of why do these students do such thing hit

us. The researchers want to conduct this research because they want to know why these

students cut their classes having the opportunity to study. Also the researchers realized

that, when they finished the research, they can help these students that cut their classes

encourage themselves to study well because not everyone is blessed to be given the

opportunity to study. This is the reason we, as the researcher and as a student conducted

it, for us to understand them and to know the reason, prevent, solve, and save these

students from wasting their opportunity to study. “What matters most for me is how

much I like the class. Sometimes a class is good because it is simply an interesting topic.

However, an otherwise boring subject can become an interesting class if the lecturer is

able to present the course material in such a clear and cogent manner that students cannot

help finding it interesting. Generally I have found that if a lecturer genuinely finds the

material he/she is teaching [interesting], and he/she is able to connect with students

through lectures (present material in a way that makes sense), then he/she doesn’t have

trouble making the material interesting for students” (Tom Clay and Lori Breslow, 2006).

Statement of the Purpose

The reason why we conducted this research is that, the researcher wants to

know the reasons of these students why they cut their classes. Because this days, it is
quite bothering in every campus where in, every schools has the same kind of problem

which is the students that cut their class, that’s why we conducted this research.

Research Questions

General Question: What are the reasons of the students for cutting classes?

Specific Question:

What do you think could be the reason of this students that’s why they cut

their classes?

Could it be:

A. Social reasons or problem

B. Because of academic problems

C. Because of the relationship

D. Because of family problems

E. Because of part time work

Overview of Methodology

The researchers are going to make an interview for the student’s reasons

for cutting class. The researchers will conduct the study in San Roque National High

School – Senior High School, including the Junior High School Students. And they’re

also going to search answers from the related researches and analyze it so they’ll be able

to give a reliable and valid research. The researchers will be using Random Sampling.

The researchers used this kind of sampling because the method that they’re going to use

in interviewing and surveying, corresponds to the meaning of the Simple Random

Sampling. They will randomly ask the participants who will respond to the survey and

interviews.

Rational and Significance of the Study

As it said earlier, students that cut their classes are getting out of hand,

most of the teachers are encountering students that cut their classes every school year. In

the chapter one of ‘Unveiling of the dark side of Education’, Cutting classes is being

rampant especially in public schools in the Philippines. In this research, the researchers

are going to know the reasons why do these students cut their classes, so that we would

be able to find ways to encourage them not to waste their opportunity to study, and also

to deliver this information to the teachers and parents to help them to solve or prevent

these students from cutting classes. We have chosen our participants – Senior High and

Junior High School students – because we know that they can help or contribute to the

research study we’re making. This study is very rational, because it is already disturbing

for the teachers and parents who give a lot of effort to help these students to achieve

success and their dreams. Cited in Tom Clay’s and Lori Breslow’s (2006) research, that

the students that cut classes is bothering these days because of its increasing issues.

Role of the Researcher

The researchers will prepare all the necessary instruments needed for

conducting the research. After gathering and analyzing all the information’s and data’s

and extract the important details to give us a good conclusion.

Research Assumptions

One of the possible factors that affect the student to do cut class is due to

the boredom about the teacher’s discussion. Base on the daily news in Turkey (2009)

named “Monitoring students”, almost eighty nine students answered boredom after they

were asked, also peers is one of a cause. The desire of being with them always affect their

study negatively even though they think that skipping class will not affect their future

(Azus, 2012). Though every time we hear the words cutting class the first thing that

comes in our mind is its negative effects like, because it drag their grade down, the

student don’t learn anything. That affects their quizzes, exam scores, and optional review;

make them have a failing grade (Taylor, 2016). The researcher believe that cutting class

has also a positive effect like skipping class to do such assignments or projects, more

time with the family and others, as Yorke and Longden (2008) describe that, ‘making

friends is an important part of having a positive first year experience’.

Definition of Key Terminologies

Junior High School is the middle school that meet the developmental needs

of preadolescents. As Howley (2002) points out the developmental needs of young

adolescents differ from those of elementary school children and older teenagers.

“Developmentally responsive middle schools must take into account all that is known

about young adolescents and the cultural context in which they live” ( Lounsbury, 1996).

Cutting class is a routine absence or skipping on your class that harms the

students exam scores, missing pre exam review and quizzes

 Senior High School (SHS) refers to the last two years of the K to 12

program, namely as grade 11 and 12 base on the DepEd guide book named as “Senior

Hi”.

Simple Random Sampling is a basic technique of sampling where we select

a group of subjects for study from a larger group, each individual is chosen entirely by

chance and each member of the population has an equal chance of being included in the

sample. Every possible sample of a given size has the same chance of selection (Easton

and McColl’s , 2015).