A junior high school in California, USA, Anaheim Union High School District, implement new ways to overcome the problem of students who like to play truant habits. Instead of punishment, students who are often truant fact that even given the 'gift' of a mobile air-GPS.
Certainly not a gift in the truest sense. The device is basically a punishment, but is considered more to educate than physical or mental punishment directly. Each student is truant ketahuna least four times a year will be equipped with these tools. They are required to report automatically with the menu on the device five times a day, which is now going to school, when they arrive at school, at lunch, when home from school, and each at 20.00 every day.
"The idea that they do not feel punished, but such interventions can help them start better habits and always go to school," Miller said Sylvan, director of AIM Truancy Solutions, a provider of such devices as reported by PC Magazine website.
Not only must confirm their attendance five times a day, every student who underwent the program also will get a call from pembinanya every day if it did not carry out its obligations it. The coach also will call three times a week to provide consultation to ensure the program runs well.
For the procurement of these solutions are not cheap. One fruit of equipment would cost 300 to 400 U.S. dollars. The cost to be borne every day on average also reached U.S. $ 8 per student for a pilot program that lasted for six weeks. However, currently all costs borne by the government. The effort has also not been in vain because the student attendance rate rose from an average of 77 percent to 95 percent. For information only, parents are there for these students can be fined up to $ 2,000 if their children play truant.
source: kompas.com
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