TITLE:
Understanding School Dropout and Its Impact on the Community in the Khulna Region of Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Fahad Bin Khurram, Md. Obaydul Hossain, Fatema Tuj Johora Korobi, Maruf Khan, Md Uzzal Talukder, Chuton Deb Nath, Ashis Talukder
KEYWORDS:
School Dropout, Factors, Khulna, Bangladesh, Education System, Rural Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.11,
November
30,
2023
ABSTRACT: In the
context of widespread school dropout rates and their far-reaching implications,
there is a pressing need to comprehensively investigate the root causes and
contributing factors. Extant literature suggests that school dropout is a
complex issue influenced by a myriad of variables spanning individual,
familial, and institutional domains. This study, conducted in the southern
region of Bangladesh through random sampling and face-to-face interviews with
210 participants, delves into the intricate web of influences on school
dropout. It scrutinizes the relationships between dropout and various factors,
encompassing individual at-tributes such as willingness, perception, and
academic performance, family related elements including the presence of educational role models and parental
support, and school-specific features like truancy, school quality,
geographical location, and instances of school conflict. The results divulge
that socio-economic instability is a chief determinant of school dropout,
delineating a distinct profile compared to regular students, further
exacerbated by reduced engagement in extracurricular activities. Significantly,
the absence of parental monitoring emerges as a pivotal predictive factor for
dropout, transcending family structures defined by parental occupations.
Considering these multifaceted findings, it is imperative to formulate school
and family policies that underscore the role of parental monitoring in abating
dropout rates, with a call for targeted interventions addressing these factors
to curtail the prevalence of school dropout.