Eduvest – Journal of Universal Studies
Volume 1 Number 10, October 2021
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There are many factors that cause moral decline today. Among others, the lack of
religious spirit in everyone in society, moral education is not carried out as it should be
both at home, at school, and in the community, lack of guidance to fill free time in a good
way and that leads to moral formation and so on (Daswati, 2012).
The issue of morality today is of great concern, especially on the vision and
mission of Islamic education, especially the MA Religious Program, related to the
increasing criminal behavior, drug users and circulation, crime, deviant behavior, sexsual
crimes and juvenile delinquency held by adolescents and students (Mufidah, 2015).
Revealed by Lickona, T (1997), children with the most conspicuous decency in
moral values almost always come, their teacher says, from troubled families. Indeed, poor
parenting is emerging as one of the main reasons why schools now feel compelled to
engage in value education. Another part of the problem is the mass media and its
prominent position in children's lives. Primary school children typically spend 30 hours a
week in front of the television. By age 16, the average child has witnessed about 200,000
acts of violence and by age 18, about 40,000 scenes are sexually stimulating. Episodes of
sexual violence are becoming more frequent (Riyanto, 2019).
From the preliminary study conducted by researchers about the implementation
of education in Madrasah Aliyah only limited to targeted to quickly graduate and obtain a
diploma (Ahmad Abrar Rangkuti, 2012). Furthermore, in order to pass immediately, the
students before the exam is carried out, then given additional courses, given the practice
of answering exam questions, and such. Thus the task of the school, as if no longer to
make students more intelligent and intelligent or moral, but to immediately graduate it
alone (Ainissyifa, 2017).
The low quality of education in addition to the provision of a less proportional
role to the school, inadequate planning, implementation, and management of the
curriculum system, and the use of cognitive learning achievement as the only indicator of
educational success, also because the evaluation system is not planned to be placed as an
educational tool and an integrated part of the curriculum system (Malawi & Kadarwati,
2018).
Some of the things expressed by the experts above, at least also apply in MAN 4
Banjar, which focuses the education system with the Madrasah Aliyah Agama Program
(Malwita, 2020). Of course, what is interesting to study is whether the quality of
education is in accordance with what is expected.
The problem that always arises into the polemic of society from various social
stratifications in the world of education is a problem that revolves around the low quality
and relevance of education to the quality of graduates and more importantly on the
mastery of students' morals (Huda, 2016). Therefore, many criticisms are leveled at
educational institutions, including madrassas. The low quality of madrasah education in
general is characterized by the inability of graduates of education to compete with
graduates of other educational institutions in entering the level of general higher
education, both national and international, or the low education of madrasah is often
measured from the national examination score (UN) which is still much lower when
compared to other schools of the same level.
Based on the initial research of madrasas in South Kalimantan, the results of
research conducted by Salabi, A. (2014), mentioned that (1) the managerial skills of the
principal fall into the high category; and (2) organizational climate conflict, and the
effectiveness of the organization fall into the moderate category. The head of the
madrassa has a very vital role in developing the managerial system in the madrassa,