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Truancy In High School, Itzel Ruiz, Jason Mink, Xochitl Aleman
Truancy In High School, Itzel Ruiz, Jason Mink, Xochitl Aleman
SPACE: Student Perspectives About Civic Engagement
The main focus of this project is to analyze students’ poor attendance in order to understand the applicable factors as to why upperclassmen tend to miss more school than students in younger grades. We will be focusing on how students relationships with parents and teachers affect upperclassmen attendance. An anonymous ten question survey was given to five Junior and Senior Civics and U.S. History classes at Steinmetz College Prep high school. The questions were geared towards the students days absent during the school year, and their relationship with teachers and parents. Majority of the students surveyed missed more than 20 …