Ditching school

Ditching school has become one of culture in education. Often we find that school children still roamed outside the school during school hours with school uniform.

If antiquity may only boys are doing or to preserve this culture, but lately not rare to find women who play truant school children on school hours, alone with female peers or with male friends.

And what about school rules? Does the school take no action with such incidents? Maybe there are some schools that regard this is normal with no sanctions against children who play truant. But actually in every school there must be regulations governing sanctions for children who play truant. But these rules sometimes are not enforced either because the teacher did not know or indeed because the teacher was tired of punishing the child.

Penalties for students who play truant could sometimes be a double-edged knife that can also be troublesome teacher sometimes, how not? As you might know a lot of news lately about teachers' violence against students. I think it is a natural thing for a teacher must also have self-esteem if he made the rules are violated repeatedly, the teacher will feel unappreciated as a teacher of course.

So what is the purpose of the students play truant?

Save Our Planet

Kita saksikan air danau yang
semakin surut tampaknya
Burung-burung kecil tak lagi berkicau
di pagi hari
Hutan kehilangan ranting
Ranting kehilangan daun
Daun kehilangan dahan
Dahan kehilangan hutan

Kita saksikan gunung
memompa abu
Abu membawa batu
Batu membawa lindu
Lindu membawa longsor
Longsor membawa banjir
Banjir membawa air
Air mata....

Anyone know the verses above? Yes, two of the last stanza poem by our poet, Taufik Ismail, entitled "Membaca Tanda Tanda" That's what happens now with our earth. Earth's forests splayed wide shady now been turned into a skyscraper buildings, land formerly planted thousands of trees are lush now been turned into luxury hotels, rivers and lakes that used to clear and spoil the eye has now turned into ocean wastes of the deadly plant.

Then who is responsible for all this? Not another friend, but we. As the next generation of our nation would be responsible for all this, we are certainly aware and concerned with the environment and the earth beneath which we certainly will attempt to make our earth breathe again.

So what can we do to help our earth? It is trivial, 'Disposing of garbage in its place'. One small thing that we often ignore, but enough had a profound effect for the state of the environment around us.

"I think the environment is where we live and the environment when I'm dirty I feel not comfortable, so if dirty environment I personally would not want because we have to clean it for me cleanliness is part of faith," said one of the young high school student.

"Most importantly, the government should follow the environmental situation in our earth, look at the Lapindo mudflow problem then, no right solution, though the government would not give a damn. And how many of our friends who lost their homes," said Uroh, one of one student at a vocational school.

Indeed, all must be originated from the private individual. Try us cultivate our caring attitude to the environment at an early age. If not in ourselves, our children, yes we try to impose on us younger siblings. After all, the benefits will be felt for all of us.

Two opinions of the above, perhaps it is representative of all of them. That attitude regardless of what happens to our earth, should we need to consider together. Because of togetherness is the most important thing that is needed at this time. Together we save our earth. Save our planet.

Where are we going to go, if the earth can no longer be habitable?