In college, one of the things that youngsters struggle with is attendance. Most colleges have a compulsory 75% attendance policy which gets on the nerves of many students as they are forced to attend lectures they’re not even interested in.
Which is why, people have been debating on Twitter whether or not colleges should have a 75% compulsory attendance policy after one user posted this question:
Should colleges remove the 75% attendance policy?
— Harish Uthayakumar (@curiousharish) January 18, 2022
On one hand, some believed that the attendance policy should be removed as students deserve the freedom to choose which classes to attend. It was also mentioned that there are students who have poor attendance who turn out to be toppers – proving that being present doesn’t guarantee academic excellence.
Yes please! Would be so helpful and give us more authority of choosing what we want to attend and not.
— Nandini Agarwal 😀 (@missAmbivertttt) January 18, 2022
I’ll be honest here, I’ve seen no one say college has helped me get all, colleges can do one thing and that’s give you assignments to practice your writing, I’m seeing a lot of companies just asking for skills and they give no shiii about what college you from. (1/2)
— Anurag | UltraX (@Anurag90420472) January 19, 2022
They should! Each student should has the right to decide what is benificial and what is not benificial for them. If they feel like something else is giving them more values than going to the college, why then they should be forced to sit there for no reason. Learning is important
— Akshat Jindal (@AkshatJindal140) January 18, 2022
I've been saying it all the time, if lectures are interesting enough no student will miss them. the fact that they have to keep a compulsion speaks a lot about teaching quality https://t.co/IFJkkG25HJ
— Aditya (@bhagutnt) January 19, 2022
Yes. Students are paying the college. It should be up to the students on whether they want to attend or not. Attendance policies are created by egotistical professors. https://t.co/xSm4Ks4DE8
— Petty Princess (@savonaceo) January 19, 2022
Absolutely. There are many students who learn better via books. Moreover it keeps teachers on their toes as the number of people who attend their classes becomes a point of pride for them https://t.co/ZBwmAC5y09
— raghavaro.eth (@raghavar0) January 18, 2022
Yes it’s a waste of time.
They just hold students like prisoners behind closed doors where mostly dumb teacher teaching them whose only agenda is to earn money. One of my batchmate who was the college topper had 10% attandance proved that attandance is shit thing.— Mishra Ji Kaushambi Wale (@Rahul_4_Joke_PM) January 19, 2022
On the other hand, there were also people who thought that an attendance policy is required as academic institutions should impose a certain level of discipline on the students. Some even suggested that attending classes is a part of the entire college experience which one ought not to miss.
No, some teachers actually teach really well and if 75% is removed people would even miss their classes.
Reduction to 60% would be still good but removal wont be
— Panshul Pant (@panshul_pant) January 18, 2022
No there should be 90% attendance policy if this can happen in schools Why not strict discipline in colleges
— Aman Bhatnagar (@AmanBhatnagar47) January 19, 2022
No, but they should reduce it to 60% then check which classes were attended by the students and which professors were approached with questions to understand what kind of learning environment the students require for better education. It will tell us about incompetent teachers to
— Devyani (@tmsdevyani) January 19, 2022
That’s all it is? If I pay to send my kid to college and kids arent going, I’d want a refund!!
I get that kids watch lectures on YouTube, etc. But if that is what is happening where I’m sending my kid, I’ll spend the $63k elsewhere!
— Brett Rudy (@bkrudy) January 18, 2022
No, colleges are one of the best experiences of a person’s life. And college consists of classes.
Instead find ways to use those classes to learn something which will help them really.— $unil (@OyeSulin) January 18, 2022
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