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 * Problem **: Tardies are absences


 * Brainstorming **:


 * Limit time
 * Tardies
 * Absences
 * Same rules
 * Tolerance
 * 3 tardies
 * Take a period of time
 * All teachers in the same way
 * All students know about the rules

Because of tardies do not reflect the students´ knowledge, teachers should give minutes of tolerance or do not count the absences.
 * Outline **
 * Thesis statement **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a) All integrants in the group establish a reasonable limit of minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a) All teachers establish a number of tardies to get an absence, such as three.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3rd paragraph: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Give enough minutes of tolerance
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">All teachers take 2 or 3 tardies as an absence

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a) Grade the knowledge and the progress of the student; do not grade with the number of absences. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">b) Remove the absences with extra works.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2nd paragraph: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> No count the absences neither tardies


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3rd paragraph: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Some teachers think punctuality it is very important and it reflects the personality and responsibility of the students.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Reasons why Absences do not Help Student Society **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">by Karol Estefanía Silva Gómez **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Do you know how many students fail a subject due to absences? Some teachers take the tardies as absences, and this situation is not fair. It should be a limit time to apply tardies. Some students need the absences too pass a subject but the absences do not represent the student´s knowledge, values and progress. Because of tardies do not reflect the students´ knowledge, teachers should give minutes of tolerance or do not count the absences.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">All teachers have to give around 10 minutes of tolerance. Sometimes students get out later than the hour established; consequently they arrive to the next class later too. “Nowadays students are active young people; their lives are saturated of activities, they have a lot of options to do.” (Park, & Pascarella, 2010, p. 711). There a lot of reasons because students cannot be in class on time, so teachers need to be more tolerant. Teachers should be in agreement to take two or three tardies as one <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">absence <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. All of them should follow this deal, also teachers need to accept the documents to excuse the absences and eliminate them. Students have different problems <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">thus <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> they may miss or be late at class; <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">hence <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> teachers need to be human and try to help each student according to individual necessities. To fairer to all, the best way is to give three <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">tardies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> and convert them in one absence. Teachers have to <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">call the role <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> every class for students are aware of their absences. Teachers and students should be in agreement to establish rules, in this way they will avoid annoying situations.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">“On average, reveal that less than 20% of those over 25 went to college, and less than 10% completed their studies.” (Muhammad & Mahmood, 2011, p.189). They are significant numbers, and one reason of this is because students fail the subjects. One reason because students fail subjects is due to absences. Consequently they are forced to leave the school. For that reason teachers should not count the absences or <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">attendances <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. Students have to be evaluated by their knowledge, values and progress during the course. Although some students attend each class they never progress, so the attendances are not important. It would be better if the teacher focuses on the student´s progress. Teachers could avoid the absences and grade according other aspects.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Some teachers think punctuality it is very important and it reflects the personality and responsibility of the students. It could be that the punctuality represents the responsibility and it is very important when the students become professionists; but all students have different problems and situations. Students in the university are in different situations and it provokes some problems about absences and tardies. “Students are forced to miss in some classes because of their situations, and sometimes it is not fair to some students”. (Stewart, Stott, & Nuttall, 2011, p. 50). Although punctuality is very important there are other factors that influence enormously during a course, and the time when students arrived.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What is the best solution for this problem? Pupils have different problems to miss or to be late in classes therefore teachers have to look for the best solution. Taking three absences as an absence could be the best solution because it is the fairest option to every student. All teachers need to be in agreement, giving some minutes of tolerance, removing the absences or taking two or three tardies like one absence.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Muhammad, Z. & Mahmood, A. (2011). Factors related to low research productivity at higher education level: //Asian social science.// //7// (2). 188-193.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">References **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stewart, M., Stott, T. & Nuttall, A. (2011). Student Engagement Patterns over the Duration of Level 1 and Level 3 Geography Modules: Influences on Student Attendance, Performance and Use of Online Resources: //Journal of geography in higher education. 35// (1). 47-67.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Park, S. & Pascarella, E. (2010). Community College Attendance and Socioeconomic Plans: Community college journal of research & practice. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">34 //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (9). 700-716.