F. The Impacts of Gangs on School
1. School
About how Gangs impact school, the writer interviewed with eleven counselors. The interview indicated that because gangs, often actively involved in
bothering, bullying, and gang-fight, their mere presence in school can increase tensions there. It can also increase the level of violence in schools; make school
loss such as school facilities; and inappropriately inactivate school teaching-and- learning, even though gang members themselves may not be directly responsible
for all of them. From statement above, it is obviously clear that gangs had bad influence on
school. Therefore, the school couldn’t optimally play its role as an education sector where most of students’ day-time is spent there.
In this situation, it’s strongly recommended that school become good field for the growing and development of pupil mental and moral, not merely implant
knowledge, skill, talent, and inelegancy.
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And school should create good social interaction among students in order to develop mental, moral, social, and other
aspects well.
2. Students’ Performance
While interviewing with eleven counselors, the writer also interviewed with twenty-two students to indicate both gang student-members’ and non-gang
student-members’ school performance. In gang student-members phase, because they are often involved in being off
class or off school while it’s school time, bothering teaching-learning process, playing game, or not noticing teachers’ explanation, they couldn’t increase their
academic performance even though they sometimes contribute school sport winning. Most counselors stated that gang members had low performance rather
than those who didn’t commit in gang.
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Zakiyah Darajah, Membina Moral di Indonesia Moral Upbringing in Indonesia, Jakarta: Bulan Bintang, 1968, p. 21.
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Picture 3: students are willing to be off school.
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Besides obtaining information from interviews, the writer also distributed questionnaires to 209 students. From 209 respondents, 43 male respondents and
34 female respondents admit that they are gang members. The table below is a distribution of gang-member students’ perception regarding with bad impacts of
gang on their school performance.
Table 4 : Distribution of gang-member students’ perception regarding with bad
impacts of gang
Male Female Gang-Member
Students’ Perception Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage
Gang has bad impacts on their school
performance 27 62 20 58
Gang has no bad impacts on their
school performance 16 38 14 42
Total 43 100 34 100
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Writer’s private documentation.
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The table surely indicates that 38 male students and 42 of respondents female students do not specifically recognize the bad influence of joining in
gang while 62 male students and 58 female students of them agree and admit that gang influence bad effects on their school performance. That is to say
that joining in gang could make students’ school performance get low or decreased.
The writer also presents a table related to gang-member students’ regret of joining in gang. Below is the table:
Table 5 : Distribution of gang-member students’ regret of joining in gang.
Male Female Gang-Member
Students’ Perception Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage
I regret joining in gang
18 41 15 44 I don’t regret joining
in gang 25 59 19 56
Total 43 100 34 100
The table shows that 59 male students and 56 of respondents female students do not really regret joining in gang while 41 male students and 44
of them female students accurately are worried and disappointed. Despite of the low percentage of respondents who do not regret joining in, it doesn’t mean that it
doesn’t affect them at all. The admittance which they stated still shows that joining gang is disappointing.
Due to influence on non-gang-member students, the non-gang members may have tensions in their daily school activities including learning and meal-time.
Students in schools with a gang presence are twice as likely to report that they fear becoming victims of violence as their peers at schools without gangs. For
instance, when one of gang members doesn’t like a student, it influences other
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members hate himher too. In the victim side, heshe couldn’t play hisher performance as desired and hoped; fear often haunts himher.
G. The Impacts of Gangs on Society
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