By James Simons-
School bunking in UK secondary schools needs urgent attention to discipline teenagers.
Skipping classes has long been a common occurrence among rebels in several U.K schools, with rebellious teenagers acting as they please.
The problem is more rife in public schools, where unambitious children act as they please. A number of secondary schools use detention as a punitive measure to discipline offending students. However, the eye of media.com have heard from several sources that some children rebel against teachers trying to discipline them through detention.
Some simply do not turn up to detention and become very confrontational to teachers when confronted about skipping detention. Reporting difficult children to their parents does not work with all families. Parents who themselves bunked school as teenagers tend to be soft in their response to bunking children, making it very challenging to keep them in check.
Children who skip classes are more likely to fall into the wrong crowd and get into drugs and crime, making this an understated problem in society. Social services and the police get involved in the case of students who stay away from school completely, but those who attend school relatively regularly but skip classes, are a problem for the school. Some schools have higher disciplinary measures in place than other schools,, depending on the strength of character of the leaders of the school.
Skipping classes is less acute in grammar schools and private schools in the U..K. The obvious reason is that students that attend grammar and private schools are often more disciplined, and from better and more educated backgrounds. They would have had to pass their eleven plus entrance exam to gain admission into such schools, and some private schools have their own added entrance exams. This means all the students in those schools have applied themselves well in order to enter those schools.
School Bunking in private schools
Most of them have parents who arrange high quality tuition for their children to prepare them very well for the eleven plus exams. High fees to runs into their thousands annually in many private schools, serve as an added incentive for students in many private schools to commit seriously to their academics. Social class may be a central issue to students from grammar and private schools who do well, Schools need more ideas and co-operation from various organizations to help tackle class skipping in secondary schools.