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

Olayinka (2014) suggests the following; let a truant be aware of the implication of truancy, let him know of the opportunities for his successful studies at school. Let him be assisted to appraise his interpersonal relationship with parents, teachers, and other students. Some students lack interpersonal relationship with others and do not behave well to obtain their needs from both parents and teachers. A truant is assisted to adjust himself to the school environment, the school subjects, the teachers and other students.
    In section 10 number 11 of the National policy on Education (2014) the need for counselling our students especially in relation to their personality maladjustment is stressed. It identifies the problem of adolescent and the need for guidance and counselling services when it states that;
“In view of the apparent of many young people about carrier prospects, and in view of personality maladjustment among school children career officers and counsellor will be appointed in post-primary institutions. Since qualified personnel in this category is scarce, government will continue to make provisions for the training of interested teachers in guidance and counselling”.
5.4    Recommendations
        Based on the findings, the researcher recommends that:
Parents should encourage their children to attend school regularly by reminding them of the importance of education especially in this present age.
    Counsellors should be posted to all schools in order to assist students solve their problems, because the problems may be the root cause of indisciplinary acts of which truancy is one.
    The physical environment of the school should be made in such a way that would be conducive to learning. Teachers should endeavour to take class attendance before and after lesson. This would make students sit up knowledge impacted on students should not be above or below their level of understanding in order to avoid irregular attendance of students in the school.
     Government should continue to support adult literacy campaign so that illiterate parent can become literate so that they can positively influence their children’s school attendance.
    Parents should strive to put their child’s interest first in whatever decision they plan to make. They should provide all the materials the child needs in school. A child who performs well in schools will not play truant.
    Parents should always get in touch with their children’s teachers in school in order to know how they are progressing. Maximum attendance can also be achieved where parents understand and support the aims of the school and value the education provided for their children.
    Blair et al (2013) says that if the activities at school challenge a student as much as those outside the school, it is certain that he would not be a truant. A child who is successful in school, whose needs are being met is unhappy if events prevent him from attending classes.
     Dare (2013) reports that the school that would hold children must make its appeal strong enough to offset the more alluring attractions and unwholesome influence from the outside. It must make them eager to leave for school in the morning and reluctant to leave in the later afternoon. Good instructions, opportunities for making and doing things, enjoyable stage activities and an attractive library can motivate students to go to school and be with friends and playmates daily. He also suggests the following useful devices:
1.    Names of children with perfect attendance records should be published periodically in local newspapers.
2.    There should be suitable awards for students with perfect attendance records for one or more years and the presentation should be made at an impressive public occasion
3.    Chart and graph each day the number in attendance and post on the classroom bulletin board.
4.    Each month, reward the classroom group having the best attendance record.
Cronbach (2014) says although there are some underlying anxieties a child might experience at home, the school cannot deal with it, so teachers and the principal should have a firm insistence that a child attends school.