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What are the factors contributing to deviance in schools?

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a) Adolescence
This is a challenging period for most students. Many would want to participate in activities that they feel will make them appear as adults, female students may indulge in sexual promiscuity, leading to pregnancies and abortions. Male students, on the other hand, would want to impress the opposite sex. This call result in petty thievery to get resources. Smoking is regarded as an adult Act. Some students may therefore engage in smoking and drinking to act and look mature.

b) Failure to adjust to the school situation
Some students never identify with the schools they are in. This fall-tire to adjust and identify with the school is portrayed in various ways. Some of tile ways include: refusal to attend school on excuses such as illness and truancy. Some students may try to change the situation violently by being aggressive towards fellow students and teachers. Others try to adjust by turning their minds to other activities so as to forget the situation. These distractions include smoking, drinking or indifference to the school surrounding.
Sources of frustration may include parents and teachers through their failure to provide for the needs of the student; the student himself/herself -through inability to adjust to the demands of the school and the school environment, particularly when the school lades basic amenities.

c) Materialism
The school and students exist in society and are part of it. The values of the larger society affect students. Materialism has permeated Kenyan society. This has resulted in some students, particularly those from high socio economic backgrounds, looking down on teachers. In the long run, tills may cause deviant behavior. Some of these behaviors’ such as sneaking out of the school compound and sexual promiscuity among teen-agers have sometimes been traced to the desire by students to get money.

d) Conformity
Deviance from the standards of one group usually means conformity to those of another. If the people with whom a student associates are deviant, he is likely to follow. When members of a peer group approve of certain activities, new members of the group tend to adopt the same attitudes and behaviors.

e) Prejudices mud biases against solve students
These help reinforce deviance. A student who wears the label, "problematic", has a harder time proving his innocence among teachers and administrators.
Deviant behavior is a symptom of the dissociation between culturally defined aspirations and the socially structured means. It is frustration and thwarted aspirations that lead to deviance as individuals search for avenues to attain their goals (Ciwarinda, 1993).

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