Social Remedy For Deviance Among Senior High School Students In Medan (A Sociological Study)

Misbehavior Students at School

Abstract

Social deviance conducted by students becomes a problem in education. The act of deviance is committed in the form of violations of the existing rules in the school. This behavior affects the disruption of teaching and learning process activities even also affects other students and teachers as well. There are many cases of misbehavior and indiscipline that these students have done, and in fact the behavior is done repeatedly. This paper examines the causes of deviant behavior and finds out how the process of social remedy conducted in a senior high school with pseudonym ‘Y’ (SMA Negeri Y) as a solution implemented by schools to overcome this problem. The data found shows the reason the students do the deviance is due to the influence of the surrounding environment which is the peer pressure, so they can be seen as trendy or ‘hip’. Other reasons include uninteresting teaching methods which results in ennui on students in learning the courses. The conducted social remedy is expected to be a solution of behavioral deviance that students commit, even for repeated deviant behavior. The stages of social remedy are: (1) the first stage, advices from the teachers are given to the students who conduct the deviance (2) the second stage, write and issue the disciplinary letter for parents (DL) (3) the third stage, the students write a letter of agreement in front of their parents (4) the fourth stage, a letter of agreement with stamp duty is made, witnessed by the parents and signed by the parents and the students (5) the fifth stage, further action is handled by the principal and the principal decides whether the students should be scolded or expelled