It is true that every child want to achieve great things in life. Many want to be educated and acquire high degrees. This they often shout out when asked what do you want to be in future? You will hear things like ,'' I want to be a doctor'','' I want to be a lawyer;'', so it continues!, Then the question is .''How can they achieve this without paying the sacrifice of acquiring education?'' Yes, many students often look for reasons to absent from school. This is common during the Nursery and primary education. They don't want to leave the comfort of their home, and also try to avoid the hard academic work and stress in school. You often find parents having a hard time convincing their children to attend school.This result in nagging and crying most times as the sight of school irritates some children. Below are some of the excuses they put up to avoid school.
1. I am not feeling fine
Early in the morning, instead of waking up to prepare for school such student will remain in bed, pretending to be sick. This trick have a high success rate because parents do not play with the health of their children. Yes, they allow such child to stay at home and given attention to ensure quick recovery. Funny enough this sickness immediately disappear when the school's resumption time has passed.
2. Our teacher won't be around.
In the nursery and primary schools, each class is manned by one teacher and when the teacher is not around the students will play throughout the day with little or nothing to show for coming to school that day. Since the parents can easily fall for this trick once in a way, some lazy student use it to stay off school.
3. I have not paid my fees
In some schools students are asked to go home after some period of non payment of some fees. This is done to prompt their parents to comply. Some students will start with this even when the school has not given such directive.
4. I have not bought my textbooks.
Failure to have some textbooks such as the English text book attracts some punishment in some schools. The fear of such punishment will make the student to absent from school until the books are provided for them.
5. My school outfit is not in good shape
Listed in this category could be, my school uniform is torn or dirty, my footwear is bad or my school bag is torn. All is for them to be allowed to stay off school for that day.
6. We have finished our lectures
Here they claim that the only thing they are doing at school during the period is personal revision since the lectures are through, hence they can do their revision at home. This is not true most time, as the fear of being in school has caught up with such student.
7. The Exams are over
They will say, ''it is only sports that we are doing since we have finished our exams''. This often works, since most parents are not interested in sports activities but sees it as a waste of time.
8. I am being bullied at school
In some cases stronger students take advantage of the weaker ones. This fear of continual harassment makes students to absent from school.
Despite what the reason might be, absenting from school is not the solution. Parent should learn to investigate those reasons before granting the request. Success in life requires sacrifice and commitment, the children and students should be made to understand this.