Dropout from Primary School - causes and solutions

Individual children

General reasons given by the boys in the study who had dropped out were:

• personal (47%), parents (28%), teacher related (14%), societal environment (11%)

Specific reasons given by the boys in the study who had dropped out were:

                Difficulty in learning (12.5%), lack of interest in studies (11.62%), lack of interest in school (10.56%), corporal punishment (10.56%), class repetition (9.61%), lack of co-curricular activities(8.65%), harsh attitude of teachers (7.7%).

Other reasons were friendship with out of school children, financial burden, child labour, family crises/broken homes, mental dullness, preference for religious education, poor health inappropriate curricular.

The majority of dropouts felt sorrow about their decision to leave school early.

pp.76-7, Farooq, 2011