What Is Attendance Policy Essay

The attendance policy should have some type of limit towards it. Being a college student you will have emergencies, death in the family, and doctors’ appointments which it will affect your school attendance. The SACS Members should be a little more lenient on college student’s attendance, because they’re human beings and should understand that they’ve had unexpected situations to come up in their lives. We as students shouldn’t have such a strict attendance. We as students should not allow this to go on when there is something we can do about the attendance policy. There will be unexpected things to happen in our lives which we can’t control. There could be death in the family which it forces us to take a couple of days out of school. If …show more content…
Attendance is known to help us be responsible in life instead of acting irresponsible like our high school days. My opponent may also say that we that being lenient on attendance may cause consequences for students, and a bad reputation for the school itself. Students may start to lack in their school work with a lenient attendant policy, and the absentees will continue to increase. Classes would be dismissed earlier than usual, and maybe even teacher will barely show up for class, because of the many absent of students who continue to not show up. Teacher may even start to make attendance a part of their daily grades. It will get so bad that will be like high school days, and students will want to make up for their absentees for the load of homework in which they …show more content…
There should be a number limit of absences for all students especially the ones who take session classes and fast track classes. This will still allow the students to show responsibility as young adults growing up in life. There is no way possible we as students will be able to attend school every day without no hesitation. Things will happen where we have no control over them, and we can’t just say “well there is no way to miss a day of school”. Even if someone tells us to save our days there aren’t really much days to, because those few days will be used in a matter of no time. There was a girl this girl in my class who told some of the students that she had to go home, because her child was sick and the next day she went back to school she was informed that she was dropped out of one of her class. She’s in fast track classes which only allowed her three absences, and nine times out of ten the other two absences has an excuse for the reason of her absence. This is what happens to students when unexpected things pop up which is out of our control and we can’t help that things happen in life. As it was stated in the first paragraph that the SACS member can handle any emergency of their which is not fair to us as students. We have a life just as they do, and we’re human beings with need just as they so why is it different when they need handle their emergencies and when we have to handle ours? There is nothing