Truancy In College Essay

Truancy is a major issue in the school system. Truant students result in lower grades, higher dropout rates, and long-term negative effects on society. I was placed on truancy at the end of my sophomore year and continue to be on truancy until this last October of my senior year. I was placed on truancy because I missed twelve day that year due to frequent illness and missed the same amount of days the next year. All the days I missed were excused, but since I went over five percent of the school days I was placed on truancy. I am a good student that always attends school unless I am sick. I am a very determined person which drove me to take high-class workloads my sophomore and junior year. I took several honor and advanced placement classes

I understand that in 2014 they decrease the amount of days missed from 10% to 5%. Yes I agree that allowing students to miss 10% of all school days seems like a lot, but at the same time that decrease caused a lot more students to place on truancy that did not have chronic absenteeism. Another problem with the decrease is that it places more stress on doctors. When I was considered on truancy my doctor was very hesitant to allow me to stay home and rest when I was ill. Last March, I was sick for almost four weeks. I came down with a cold over spring break and then a week later I was diagnosed with bronchitis. I asked my doctor for a day off to get well and rest so I could do my best at school, but she said that the schools were pressuring her not to allow students to stay home unless it was completely necessary. My doctor had also experienced many patients coming into her office on truancy even though they were good students. The week after I was diagnosed with bronchitis, I came down with pneumonia. For a week or more I had been a carrier of walking-pneumonia and exposing my whole school to a very contagious infection. Maybe if my doctor had given me a couple day off it would not have been as