If in fact there are more students skipping school then there could be a number of factors involved, some include:
- More and more parents are both working now, and this could make it harder for them to know where their children are. Being busy, sometimes you lose sight of other things.
- Also more teens these days have vehicles, or friends with vehicles. Making it easier to go to and from school whenever they please.
- With all the ways of communicating with one another now, students are able to miss a class or two and still have all (or most of) the information they would have gotten had they been there. (Cellphones, Internet, Blogs, and Friends)
I'm not sure that there is a way to control kids from skipping class. You could say "well if you skip a class then you are suspended for a day". What good is that. Chances are if the kid skipped class they will see a suspension as a day off school.