Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.
Thesedays, more and more universities choose the mandatory attendence policy. A lot of controversy exists wheatehr it is helpful for university students or not. Although I admit the advantages of mandatory attende such as increases the amount of studying time, I strongly believe that attendance should be optional for students. The reason behind this is that students are motivated in optional attendance. In addition, students can use their time what they want to do.
To begin with, optional attendance is beneficial for students because it motivates students to study. This is simply because a lot of people have their own cycle. Which means that their is time that they want to study and that they want to do anything. Thus, compulsory attendance policy decreases students' passion to learn. A survey conducted by a korean newspaper clearly show this point. According to it, about 80% of people said that they don't want to study in the compulsory atmosphere. This is because they want to lead their study by themselves. They also argued that they prefer studing in an optional attende class. This survey plainly highlights the benefits of optional attendance and disadvantage of mandatory classes for students.
On top of that, students may want to do other things in that time. For example, they simply want to do playing piano, watching movie or work in part-time job. However, in the mandatory attendance classes, their attendance rates will be reflexed in the whole grade, they will get low grade. It will be especialy lethal to poor students. They have to work in order to make tuition, but then they will get low grade. In this dilemma, student will worry what to do. My friend's experience is one of the best examples that demonstrate this point. Since his univeristy was conducting the mandatory attendance policy, he have to go the classes. One day, his father get a car accidnet during his class time. He really want to go a hospital immediatly, he cannot go because of the mandatory attendance policy. This example show a shortcoming of mandatory attendance policy.
On the whole, I firmly disagrees with the mandatory attendance policy. This is because it decreases morale of students and students might need to do other things in that time. If I can counsle to university authorities, I will advice them to choose the optional attendance policy.