Factors Responsible for Students Dropout at Secondary Education Among Slum Children: A Study on Khulna City of Bangladesh

Why do Junior High School Students from Poor Families in Southwest China Maintain a High Dropout Rate under Multiple Policies Support?

“…Letting children know about new things outside of school will incentive their desire of dropping out of school, just like school students who have frequent contact with their dropout peers will increase the dropout rate [10]. Our conclusion was similar to previous studies that the average age of the heads of households of dropout students was higher than the average age of the heads of nondropouts [3]. Older parents who spoil their children more may increase the dropout rate of their children (Table 4, Fig.…”

“…On the other hand, the dropouts escape from the constraints of school, and the new lifestyle can temporarily satisfy their psychological needs of curiosity, independence and freedom [20]. As high as 55% dropout students in Bangladesh slums became migrant workers shortly after they dropped out of school [3]; the dropout students showed a similar trend in our study area (Table 5). The older students are more likely to drop out of school [10].…”

“…1). Children in families with large size and many siblings [3,8] divorced parents [15] and sick members are more likely to drop out of school (Table 3, Table 4, Fig. 1), in which families they receive less attention and bear greater psychological stress.…”

“…The high dropout rate of junior high school students exists in many countries and regions. In recent years, India [1][2], Bangladesh [3], Singapore [4], Israel [5] and China [6][7][8][9][10] have reported high dropout rate of junior high school students. In some regions, the cumulative dropout rate of junior high school students in three years was more than 50% [6][7].…”

“…The factors that cause junior high school students to drop out of school are multidimensional, including achievement, emotion, economy, cognition, social culture, behavior and psychology [3,11]. Dropout factors are complex and heterogeneous, involving society, school, family and students themselves [12].…”