Student Absenteeism and Affecting Factors

Abstract

Absenteeism from school may lead to the start of a process that limits the right to education and may even cause the child to drop out of school. Ensuring school attendance of children of compulsory education age is a shared responsibility of all stakeholders in education. In order to eliminate the problem of school attendance, it is possible to raise the awareness of all persons responsible for absenteeism and dropping out of school and to eliminate the reasons for absenteeism by working in cooperation with these stakeholders.

Children's presence in a safe school environment ensures their success in school as well as their protection against all kinds of dangers that may come from outside. On the other hand, being away from school negatively affects all aspects of children's development and makes it difficult for them to meet appropriate prevention and intervention programmes in a timely manner.

Preventive interventions should be developed to prevent school-age children from leaving school without completing their education. Therefore, detailed studies and co-operation are needed to eliminate the reasons that keep children away from school. In this study, it is tried to reveal the reasons for student absenteeism and what can be done to eliminate these reasons.

Keywords: High school students, Absenteeism, Reasons for absenteeism