"A Descriptive Study of Attitudes and Perceptions of the Truant and the" by William H. Upham
 

Date of Award

4-1976

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

First Advisor

Edward DeRoche

Second Advisor

Roosevelt Washington

Abstract

High schools across the country are experiencing an alarming increase in truancy. Twenty-eight percent of t h e student population becomes truant to the point of dropping out before they complete their school careers. As most schools are now organized, these truants find little either academically or socially to meet their needs. Since the majority of the truants are of at least average intellectual ability and since the major distinguishing characteristic between the truant and the stay- in is their attitude toward school, I propose that there is some structural or institutional factor or design that drives the student from school. It is difficult to address the needs of the alienated truant student because either he has knowingly put himself in a situation where the school can not influence him or he has been put in that situation by the institution.

Comments

An Essay Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Education Department, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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