Visit a remote village/slum area or a colony in your neighborhood and identify any girls children who do not have access to education / drop_out from scjool and find out the reason for the same
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Explanation:
We need to understand the constraints faced by adolescent girls when thinking about what can be done to improve educational opportunities for girls. When parents are asked in surveys why their daughters dropped out of school, issues related to the cost of schooling (out-of-pocket and opportunity costs), early marriages and pregnancies, a lack of learning while in school, and a lack of interest in remaining in school often come up. In some countries, some factors play a larger role, while in other countries, other factors may be more prominent. But in many countries, even if this may not appear explicitly in survey responses by parents on reasons for girls dropping out, social norms and gender roles also affect the ability of girls to remain in school.
Consider the case of Niger, one of the countries with the lowest levels of educational attainment for girls in the world. Analysis of household surveys as well as ethnographic field work suggest that six main obstacles lead most girls to not pursue their education beyond the primary level.
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1. Poor learning outcomes and cost. Rural government schools are so poor in quality and resources that many children graduate from primary school without learning to read. The schools do not charge tuition, but parents complain that the cost of uniforms, guard fees, transport, lunches and the opportunity costs of losing their daughters’ labor are hardly worth the poor learning outcomes they see.
2. Failure at examinations. Students can only take the primary school completion exam twice. If they fail, they are ineligible to continue in public education. When girls fail examinations, parents say that they have little choice but to begin looking for a suitable suitor which their daughter could marry.
3. Lack of nearby secondary schools. Few rural communities have their own secondary school and there are few boarding schools serving communities. Parents must send their children to nearby towns and cover the costs of transportation and room and board. Students stay with relatives or contacts and parents are reluctant to leave their daughters without what they consider proper oversight.
4. Forced withdrawal of married adolescents. Once a girl is married, she is likely to be expelled from school. Husbands show little interest in supporting their adolescent wife’s education especially if they must enroll in a private school. This is an expense that they cannot afford. Conversely, the fear of not being allowed to withdraw their daughters from school for marriage is a complaint of some parents.
5. Never enrolling in school or enrolling too late. Some families never enroll girls in school, perhaps in part because parents had no educational opportunities themselves. In some cases, teachers may refuse to enroll children that are considered too old to start primary school.