In many countries, truancy is a worrying problem for both parents and educators. What are the causes of truancy, and what may be the effects on the child and the wider community?
Today society has witnessed a noticeable increase in the number of children being absent from school without permission and explanation. This phenomenon comes from several factors and can cause destructive effects on both the students and the whole population.
The first reason for this alarming situation is the problems originating from the families. It is commonly known that students coming from an imporverished family, who are struggling to earn adequate amount of money to cover raising daily expenses, are likely to play truant. Their parents, due to deficient knowledge, hardly understand the importance of education, resulting in the lack of engagement with their children’s academic lives. They can even force the children to work part-time jobs in order to ease finacial burden. Furthermore, it is the education system that play a complementary role in increasing the level of truancy. The fact that students are obligated to learn trite knowledge from books without being shown any practical benefit of what they learn to their future lives leads to the loss of interest in curricular activities amongst the youngsters and their absence from several lessons at school.
Truancy has brought negative effects on a macro level. Firstly, missing a number of lessons can make students having difficulties catching up with the knowledge taught at school. As a result, a decline in academic performance would be seen, which can cause ineligibility to attend college and the likelihood to fewer job opportunities in the future. Moreover, without supervision during the day, children are more likely to get involved in criminal activities, such as vandalism or shoplifting. This would cause detrimental impacts on the safety of the community.
From what has been discussed above, we may draw a conclusion that there are various reasons behind the increasing rate of truancy and this change can have destructive effects on both students and the society.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1657.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37987012987 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88998793681 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600649350649 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.4162142015 49.4020404114 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.357142857 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.14285714286 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150809733502 0.244688304435 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050697861556 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553593367455 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102731280347 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469829625451 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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