ORIENTED EDUCATION QUALITY NOT QUANTITY

When someone asks me, as an educator proud would you toward high school graduation rate reached 99.5%? Dependent. If the process of obtaining the graduation rate of 99.5% through an honest process, especially in the implementation of National Examination (UN) as the most important variable in determining graduation, then we will feel the graduation rate was fairly high. However, if the process of obtaining that figure is loaded with fraudulent practices, a sense of pride of course it was never there. 

Our education is experiencing disorientation, where the orientation of the education we are stuck on the orientation of the quantity, quality and marginalize orientation. Along with his school stakeholders trapped in a paradigm, that the measure of success lies in the educational praxis quantity indicator. Ranging from the governor to the school principal, each before the UN set a target of 100% graduation. If graduation rates do not add up to 100% is considered a disgrace. So what are the consequences? Everyone interested in the graduation target would justify any means to achieve the maximum level of graduation. And, this is the beginning of disaster destroyed the quality of national education. 

But, we need to continue to believe that there are still people who remain consistently maintained his idealism and honesty prefer to sow the learners rather than mortgaging the values ​​of honesty just to please his superiors and to impose 100% graduation. 

Equitable quality of education, through the mapping of national graduation rate is another implication of the importance of instilling honesty in the process of reaching the target graduation. If obtaining a passing score achieved by any means, the portrait of the mapping quality of education will be apparent. 

Based on data from the Ministry of Education and Culture, the rate of high school graduation / MA and SMK nationally achieved the lowest East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). Of the total number of students 36 228 participants, 34 304 students passed or 95.50 per cent, while as many as 1,994 students did not graduate. According to M. Noah, yet move NTT ranked the lowest percentage of graduation due to four factors of motivation, quality of teachers, infrastructure, and support the family. Therefore the government is trying to intervene with a variety of things including the provision of education funding. This year was nearly USD 200-300 billion in addition to the budgets of the common, said M.Nuh.Kemendikbud UN assumed took place clean so that the graduation is considered valid enough to map the quality of education nationwide.  

Though empirical fact is not so. Distribution of quality educational programs in the country if only passing reference to the nationally vulnerable misplaced. If the education ministry has not had another instrument to map the quality of education in addition to graduation rates, prepare a map that will be a blur map not give any description. "The function of the national exam (UN) to map the success of education in Indonesia is not running since the UN came into force in 2004", says education expert from the Bandung Institute of Technology, Iwan Pranoto (www.antaranews.com). 

Had UN only serves as a mapping tool and does not function as a dominant variable in determining graduation, then the hope of obtaining a more accurate result of the portrait of education in this country will be gained. If all education stakeholders who have an interest in the results of the UN and graduation still justify any means to obtain maximum results while the UN is no longer a tool of graduation, then doomsday our education. 

Parents are smart in choosing their child's school course will not only see the school graduation rate. Useless high school graduation rate and average honing his UN-10, if the school is not the process quality. Measuring the process of a school can be seen from the existence of facilities and pre-school facilities, as well as the achievements of the school in a variety of events both in academic and academic competitions. Sell ​​graduation rates are often conducted by private schools to attract prospective students. The smart parent will certainly not be easily persuaded, especially the school facility infrastructure facilities minimal. 

In addition to quality issues, the education we are facing a problem of moral decline in the quality of the learners. Actions violate the rules and norms of society after graduation announcement is a routine that is always repeated every year. World school is deemed to have failed to score a sublime character of human beings. Excessive expression of joy after graduation announcements, raises the assumption that the school is considered a "prison" that impede learners. So that, when they passed, although with no honest way, they express it with excessive and beyond the limits of the rules, new tub freed from prison. 

Expression of excitement passing by our learners increasingly make our hearts sad. Violation of traffic, drug binge, drinking, and sex parties we often hear when graduation announcements. Obviously it means primitive and unintelligent. And, school assignment prevent these actions together with the parents, and law enforcement officials. Planting character education through curriculum integration is one way to ward off bad behavior and violate the norms of our learners. However, if the investment turned out to be inconsistent character in schools, such as teaching learners honest but rather the school provide answers leaked UN planting character then it would be useless. This consistency should continue to apply outside of school, do not let schools teach noble character, while we see a variety of learners outside of school social deviance, eg official corruption, robbery, murder and other social aberrations. 

Finally, when it's time to restore educational praxis on track. Orientation must be returned in their basic education that is quality. Impose a 100% graduation rate kondrat deny humanity. Although M.Nuh, the Education Minister, once said "all parties should not be forced to obtain the results of National Examination (UN) passed 100 per cent". But, if everyone who has an interest in the graduation rate will obey the words of Noah's pack. During the graduation rate could become a political commodity head region, the graduation rate will continue to be forced to close to 100%. The principals are more afraid to head to the region of the Minister of Education. If instructed regional heads seek school graduation 100%, then all principals will have the same motto "100% pass". If this condition continues maintained, then the deterioration of our education will be eternal.