students should be given freedom to decide whether to come to class or not?

Question

serious answers only..please ...

Answer 1

If students don't want to come to class for the entire year, that is fine with me, but students should not be given the freedom to decide to come to class when the mood strikes them. This is not about a student's individual rights, but about the group rights of the other students and teachers involved.

It is very difficult trying to get a student caught up when they have been out for an extended period of time. Some students have been suspended and some students are taken on "vacation" by a family member. Invariably, they have not kept up with the assignments and need individual tutoring during class time. (God forbid, they show up on their own time before or after school!) This is unfair to the students who have been in class and unfair to the teacher who will be blamed when the intermittent student fails.

Can you imagine the chaos in the classroom if students are given the option to show up (or not) whenever the mood strikes them?

Answer 2

No, there is no alternative when we live in a country where education is free to a student in K-12. A student should see it as there duty to learn. It is now a new law that a student must be in school from the age of 5 – 17 this in some ways makes it mandatory for a student to learn. Here in Colorado school district are tufting there truancy and attendance standards. Making sure the student is in the classroom. It is imperative to understand that a student must meet the seat requirement in order to get an adequate education here in America.

Answer 3

No. The reason being is that interaction and critical thinking on a subject is lost in absence. Not all of the course is from the book but more from discussion of what is in the book. Books as we know are never current so only through class attendance and participation does learning occur realistically. However, if a teacher or professor is an absolute bore and sticks to outdated material, a complaint should be made and that is when I see students tendency to miss class more frequently rise. Otherwise, if the instructor is on top of it and wants to see students learn, they will attend class, even when ill in some instances.

Answer 4

Technically anyone over 16 that has at least an 8th grade education (at least here where I'm from) isn't required by law to go to school. But here it seems like you are asking if students should be allowed to go to some classes but not others. Don't you get to pick your classes in high school? I went to a tiny school but we still got to pick and choose what classes we had.

In college, yes this is the case--the student is paying for the schooling after all. In high school (unless one is going to a private school) the government is paying for it. So I think that whomever is paying for the education is the one with the power to decide if attendence is mandatory or not.

Answer 5

Some of the other answerers have given you excellent reasons ie. missing out on learning, which you might not receive. However, regardless of whether you are in high school or college, going to school is YOUR JOB. Just as your parents go to a job everyday, you go to school to study; it's your "employment". If you weren't going to school you probably would/should be working in a factory somewhere as children used to do in the past, starting at a very young age. So, let me ask you a question in return "Do you think people should have the freedom to decide if they want to go to work today or not for any reason , like "I just don't feel like it today, I think I'll stay home"?? "Do you think, the employer, should be given the freedom to pay you or not, if he doesn't feel like it"??

Answer 6

Everyone has the freedom to choose to go or not, it's called free will. BUT there are always going to be reactions to their actions. If they are really young and don't go, they will get into trouble with their gaurdians, the law, and create further learning difficults for themselves later in life. If they are older adn don't go, like 16 years of age, then hopefully they are furthering their studies at home or something to make up for the lost educational opportunity that they are getting by choosing to not go. If they stop learning, they stop truely living.

Answer 7

As a part time professor I allow this freedom. If you don't get the assignments in on time and pass the tests, you will get an "F". If you are late, I give cutters no breaks. If you cheat I will make sure everyone finds out.

Have a nice day!

Answer 8

Who will you blame later on in life for your lack of education. Will you be back on here blaming everyone for not making it law to go to school. If you want that "freedom" move to a third world country and swap places with a child there, who is prepared to dig around in landfills to find thing to sell, to get enough money together for an education.

Answer 9

Of course, however,you only have yourself to blame in the future. Certain classes are required by law (and pass).I won't force you to go to school, just remember, you have to have a high school diploma to get a job just about anywhere. It's your life, I'm not telling you how to live it or what to do, just trying to help. You do what you want to do. I finished high school, but being disabled I'm unabe to work. If you're able to work I would stay in if I were you.

Answer 10

at what grade level?
college students have that option...it might be a good idea for high school so that it would be legitimate for teachers to tell students to not come to class if they aren't going to do anything...I have a lot of students who come just to cause trouble...so possibly not the worst idea I've seen on here...but it isn't going to happen...