The Effect Of Truancy On The Academic Performance Of Senior Secondary School Students
[A CASE STUDY OF OGBOMOSO SOUTH, OYO STATE]

CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary of Findings  
In all, three (3) hypotheses were accepted while two were rejected. The first hypothesis was accepted. This means that non- truants may have parents who act like models for them would want to attend school more regularly than truants. The reason why truants have negative attitude to schooling may be as a result of several factors. Most of the non-truants for them, in this way the non-truants are motivated to attend school regularly. The second hypothesis was also accepted. The reason for this may be because truants run away from school and they may not be present when other students are being assessed. Definitely, the overall marks for such students would be affected when compared with students who do not run away form school. In explaining why students run away from school and perform badly academically,
Rogers (2012) says that children who are held in low esteem by their teachers would also hold themselves as being highly valued by their teachers tend to do well. He says that a pupils self-concept will exercise a causal influence over his or her level of academic performance. One could just readily suggest that the level of academic performance that a child experiences will exercise a casual influence over his/her self concept.
The third hypotheses was rejected. This shows that a student who wants to play truant will do it irrespective of the sex. Sex is not a determinant of whether a students will play truant or not. Males and females have different reasons for playing truant.
The fourth hypothesis was accepted. The reason for this is that the few who have literate parents are better than those who do not. Literate parents encourage their children to go to school such truants have their parents as models. The fifth hypothesis was rejected. Teacher do not encourage students to run away from school students may have different reasons for running away from school and not because of the teacher.
Teachers would not feel happy if their students fails to perform well due to playing truant in school.
5.2    Implication for the Theory and Practice 
    Education is very important for all children of school age and the responsibility for seeing that they are properly educated rests with parents. Absence from school is assumed to be absence from education and hence, it is a breach of the law (against school rules and regulations unless a good cause such as illness is the reason.
There are many ways truancy can be eradicated. The role of parents, teachers and the society cannot be over-emphasized. Petrie and Conochie ( 2013) say that children who do not conform to school rules are reckoned as bad. If they do not accept the ethics of the school, every offer should be made to induce them to do so. We have truants, thieves, drug takers and so on. We groom them, cherish them and perhaps suspend them temporarily form school.
Parents play a very important role in eradicating truancy. There is much that the parent can do to make school the enjoyable, satisfying, valuable experience what is should be for all parents. One of the most important of these is to show an attitude of interest, cooperation and appreciation of the school and the teachers. Another thing is to show interest in the child’s progress, activities and accomplishments in the school. It can be an interesting and encouraging attitude which brings his two worlds, home, and school, into one orbit and makes it natural for the child to share his two experiences.
Students should be made aware of the implication of truancy on their academic performance. On how truants  should be discipline, Frances (2013) says that child need help rather than punishment. If punishment is needed, it should be given but the child must be show why it has been given that the relationship is as it was before. Parents and teachers play very important role in moulding up students especially when it comes to eradicating truancy. Durojaiye (2014) is of the opinion that parents and teachers are the most important influence during the crucial period in a child’s life. Parents start the process of education, teachers continue it. It is therefore absolutely necessary that both the architects and the builders of the child’s educational development cooperate to achieve the formation of a responsible and well adjusted human being. The extent to which the child’s intellectual potentialities for success in the educative process can be realized depends initially upon how the parents who transmitted these potentialities can provide the environmental influence to nurture it. Parent/teacher cooperation is necessary if the child is to have a coherent and consistent pattern of continuity from the informal education of the home to the formal approach of the home.
The teacher’s immediate task is to promote learning in his pupils. To do this, he need to know more than the subject he teaches. He needs also to know the pupils. In this way, he would know these with deviant behaviour especially those who always run away from school.