A study on the factors causing girl child dropout in primary schools in busolwe town council, Butaleja district. (case study of Busolwe primary school)
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2024
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Busitema University
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The study on the cause of girl child drop out of school in Busolwe Town Council is one of the counties in Bunyole west in Butaleja district in eastern Uganda. The high constant drop out in the population of girls’ child in primary schools in Busolwe town council has caused a threat to the district of Butaleja. It was on this back ground that the study was conducted to find out the reason as to why constant drop out of girl child from school is on the increase. The objective of the study is as follows: To find out whether school environment influences girl child drop out at schools. To find out if peer groups influence girl child drop out of school in Busolwe town council. To establish if home back ground influences the drop out of girl child in Busolwe town council. Both random and purposive method of data collection were used selection of all 50 respondents and their views captured. The girls may agree that the beauty and brains are both parts to success and therefore focused on things which make them physically attractive this leads to dropping out of school and hoped for marriage as one way of climbing up social ladder to achieving new and more nature relation with age males of both sexes (peer group), achieving famine social role, accepting for marriage and family life in short. Inconclusion As seen from the survey, this minority group are likely to irregularly attend or drop out of schools due to impairments. There exists a strong relationship between class and school dropout rates as receded by the respondents. It is observed that in most cases, dropout is at the peak in primary six (29%), primary five (28%) and primary four (26%). Parents are the primary care givers to the learners in primary school and other levels of education. Recommendation Strengthen stakeholder engagement in schools and community through the school management committees, village education secretaries to do mobilization of learners to go back to school. Promote co-curricular activities to attract some of the learners back to schools Promote Sports competitions. Encourage parent and child meetings in schools to enforce close relationship and support of the parents to the learners and improve performance. Lobby for more support to cater for the minority groups like the special needs learners and creating more friendly facilities to them. This will encourage them to stay in school. Creating more youthful activities within schools to engage and empower the youth so that they are not redundant and end up in bad peer groups that leave
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Nanima, J. (2024). A study on the factors causing girl child dropout in primary schools in Busolwe Town Council, Butaleja District. (case study of Busolwe Primary School) [Research report]. Busitema University