Dropout School Children in Coastal Communities

Abstract

Education by various groups is still believed to be an escalator to raise one's social status. Because of that education has a strategic position to break the path between poverty and ignorance. But this does not happen to coastal communities, remote on Gili Re. Where the number of children dropping out of school is very high. The majority of the final education of Gili Re coastal children only reaches primary school (SD) and not a few who drop out of school at the junior secondary level. The contributing factors are the lack of educational facilities, the economic conditions of parents and the views of parents and children on the importance of education. The purpose of this study was to determine dropout children on Gili Re and to find out the factors causing dropout children on Gili Re.