Educational Wastage: a Case Study of Upper Primary School Girl Dropouts in Otonglo Zone, Kisumu Municipality

There are other factors associated with early school leaving. Researchers have focused on three different topics. First topic, student and family factors identified as contributing to dropouts is gender, racial, and ethnic minority status, low socioeconomic status, poor school performance, low self-esteem, delinquency, substance abuse, and pregnancy. In addition to this research has also gathered the impact of certain family characteristics, such as single-families,

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, illuminates the essential rights that all children have. According to the Convention, each child has the privilege of education, it is the state 's obligation to guarantee that essential education is free and necessary, to allow distinctive types of secondary training, including general and professional training and to make them open to each child and to make advanced education accessible (United Nations, 1990). But as indicated by UNICEF, an expected 93 million kids on the planet don 't get the chance to go to school, the majority whom are girls. A large part of these children are poor and their families can 't stand to send them to school. They should work to help their families survive. Others, for the most part, young girls don 't go to school since they need to help at home. However, without an education, children and families are forced to lead an existence in poverty (UNICEF, 2015).

There are many reasons why girls in countries such as Afghanistan don't go to school one of them is that they don't have independence to make there own decisions.Malala explained this to us in document D where she said ¨In Pakistan when women say they want independence,people think we don't want to obey our father's,brothers, or husband.¨ She explained how her society view women having independence they view this as morally bad which has lead men to make the decisions and therefore have keep girl out of school.ANother big issue is that girl get married before they even turn 18 according to document A.To be exact 15 million girls are married before they turn 18 which turn into 18millon girls who drop out of school of who never went to school.Many of you might agrue that they all dont drop out that probabity ture but 99% will when you have a husban to take of and children and you don´t have the right to make destion an eduction becomes

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Chennakrishnan.p. A Study on School Drop-Out in rural settings in Tamilnadu with special reference to Vellore District Ph.D(Economics) Thiruvalluvar University Vellore-632115 Tamil Nadu.

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The other reasons that they added for student dropout of high school low GPA and work related. This implies that students have a lots pressures including personal, environmental and financial problem that make it harder for them to earn their diploma. Especially for those who grew up in the family with a low-income; it’s challenging due to lack of social support and resources. As I research, I acknowledge the problems about high schools dropout is very complex. However, over all, the main factors for student’s lack of academic achievements are family structures, communities and schools. Negative impacts come when students feel that their parents, schools and the communities are not there for them. When children obtain support, they will have

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The proportion of children who are enrolled in primary schools has increased from 49% to 77% in the past decade in sub-Saharan Africa. This increase in enrollment is due mostly to the initiative of the governments from these regions to improve universal primary education. However, much remains to be done because even though enrollment has been made a possibility in a lot of these countries, there are a lot of other variables at play that still prevent children from receiving a quality education. Things such as poverty, cultural traditions, gender violence, and the incidence of early marriage are a major reason for disadvantaged groups, particularly poor girls, not making as much progress in enrolling

Students are at risk of dropping out of school when parents and students do not perceive that additional schooling is worth the investment of time and money, that is, when the costs of schooling exceed the expected benefits. A high rate of dropout could indicate that students are not learning enough, that the quality of schooling is too low to justify student’s time and the direct cost in terms of parental contributions. Other factors can also put children at risk of dropping out of schools. When schools do not offer all the grades of the basic cycle and children therefore have to change schools to attend the higher grades and increase their travel time to get to school. Many schools have either been closed by the government or occupied and damaged by internally displaced people or armed

Approximately 75 million children around the world have no opportunity to attend primary school. Of the 75 million, most of them are girls due to tradition or parents that hold them back from attending ("Main Navigation"). Other factors that affect children from going to school is because of conflicts and wars that result in schools to be destroyed and families to flee the country. Lack of education is a growing crisis due to many factors in developing countries but it has the power pull a country out of poverty and make them economically stable and attract other countries to trade, therefore it should be seen as a priority. Developed countries are involved to help countries increase their education because every child should have the

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Various programs are being carried out by schools in order to reduce the rates of dropout and these programs are centered on maximizing school attendance and achievement and other educational-related outcomes (Fashola and Slavin, 1998). More often

Education is considered as the critical software for development as it shapes the destiny for every society. Currently the initiative is driven by the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of Education for All. The MDG’s with direct reference to women education are Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education and Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women. This means that everybody in the society should be given a chance to attend school, women included (Anne Syomwene , 2015)