EMPRESA LADRILLERA PRECIO POR MILLAR (S/.)

The study established that the effects of SMB lead to academic failure. Sometimesthe study indicated that every school the researcher visited had some learners who exhibited the characteristics of SMB.Major causes of SMB were peer pressure and family socio economic status which had bigger percentages compared to others. The major causes of SMB were peer pressure and socio economic status which had bigger percentages compared to others. the effects of SMB had been seen as poor academic performance .All the schools the researcher visited used guidance and counseling as a major intervention strategy to help curb the behavior and monitoring of the behaviour was also observed

5.1.1 Characteristics of Learners with SMB

The study established that there were statistical evidence from Table 4where learners exhibited the characteristics of socially maladjusted behaviour,6(100%) showed learners who were rebellious against school rules, truancy and delinquent behavior which indicated the greatest percentage of learners who were rebellious against school rules. Those who were emotionally disturbed had a percentage of4(67%), which showed an

indication of some schools missing such learners who were emotional in behaviour, while the least number of learners were those who were withdrawn with 6(33%).These were seen in only two schools were the head teacher advised the parents to seek medical attention for their children so that the children could not learn like the other children. This gave an indication that every school the researcher went to had a percentage of learners who were socially maladjusted. This does not show that all learners in Kasarani Sub County were socially maladjusted, from the sample given the number is minimal but the fact remains that such learners exist.

5.1.2 Causes of Socially Maladjusted Behaviour

It is evident from Table 5 that the study‟s major cause of SMB is peer pressure where learners influence one another in doing things which do not conform to the school rules. 10 (48%) of the respondents chose peer pressure followed by the family‟s socio- economic status 5(24%)which could be attributed to poverty, single parenthood or even orphan status. This showed that most of these children lacked basic needs could be they do look for ways to find money for themselves to take care of their daily needs. This is followed by drugs as the third major cause of SMB with 4(19%) of the respondents being in slum schools. With little work to do outside school, it has been revealed that most of the learners with SMB abuse drugs which trigger the kind of behaviour exhibited in the school. Very few of the respondents,2(10%) agreed with temperament as being the cause, because there were very few times when a learner can raise her tempers due to something in school or in class.

5.1.3 Effects of Socially Maladjusted Behaviour

It is evident from the study that SMB has an effect on the academic performance of learners. The frequency statistical table showed the effects of SMB by learners getting poor results who had 50%. Those who dropped out of school and street families were 20% respectively and those who had unwanted pregnancies were 10%. Generally the effect shown on the frequency table showed signs of poor results but this does not include all the learners in Kasarani sub-county since it affects a few who have behaviour problem which were extreme that the school cannot contain, such as SMB which in real sense affect the performance of a school.

5.1.4 Intervention Measures

The study showed that there was need for intervention measures and already, head- teachers had availed ways of helping learners who were socially maladjusted in their behaviour.The frequency Table 6 shows that guidance and counseling was used to help learners with SMB. All the head teachers who were interviewed gave ways in which they used guidance and counseling and even indicated that they have a full panel of teachers who meet to discuss the welfwere of the learners as well as their behaviour.

According to frequency Table 6 rewarding positive behaviour as a way of curbing a behaviour is rare. Only 2(33%) agreed it while 4(67%) disagreed on the intervention measure. The respondents argued that rewarding a positive behavior would not make a learners heal in a natural way, because when one day the reward would miss the learnerswould go back to the bad SMB.Since SMB is a behaviour which is self triggered

the learners should adjust and realize that it is indeed bad to behave that way and stop the bad behaviour.

Most head teachers monitor the behaviour of learners who were socially maladjusted in that from the frequency Table 6, 4(67%) strongly agreed with it while 2(33%) agreed on the idea of curbing SMB by monitoring the learners‟ behaviour. This means that they

agreed 6 (100%) the researcher was even shown the black book were some names have been written toshow how they were following up the cases,some Head-teachers have even gone as far as including the chief of the area where the learners lives to report to the chiefs office every day in the morning and after school to show the head-teachers signature to certify that they had been in the school the whole day.

Parental intervention was also used by most head teachers to curb SMB among learners.2(33%) of the respondents strongly approved the use of parental intervention while 3 (50%) agreed to it. These showed an indication that they have all agreed. Parents/guardians were to be part and parcel of the school they have to be trained to build a strong partnership between the school and home and to foster effective bonds within families and teachers intervention which were all delivered to all learners This lay the ground work and promotes an environment for more intensive interventions for more at risk learners in the early pre-primary years. Only 1(17%) disagreed with the idea of involving parents as well as other intervention measures to curb their children‟s socially maladjusted behavior.