72,000 children who dropped out of primary school – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to the Mehr reporter, Rezvan Hakimzadeh, in a specialized meeting to explain the dropout rate, stated that the apparent academic coverage this year was more than we expected: while in the elementary school, we had predicted about 8 million and 760 thousand knowledge Learn: 8 million and 790 thousand students registered. The main reason for the higher enrollment rate than expected in the new year was families who last year refused to enroll their children in the first grade due to the corona outbreak, and this year enrolled their children in school.
The Deputy Minister of Primary Education added: “Before Corona, we had 39,788 children who dropped out of primary school in the country, and in Corona, this number suddenly reached 87,000.” This year, with a slight decrease, 72,000 children have dropped out of primary school.
Explaining the reasons for children dropping out of primary school, he said: “Cultural poverty and parents’ refusal to educate their children, financial poverty of families, street working children, exceptional and disabled children, the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, children without identity documents.” And early marriage of girls is one of the reasons why children drop out of school. We have no problem identifying the reasons, but unfortunately, 100% coverage of children for education requires the determination of all institutions.
Hakimzadeh, stating that we do not have a suitable budget for working children to study, added: we must move towards flexible curricula for the education of working children; There are problems such as the impossibility of planning for the education of working children and the lack of a home address for these children to communicate with the school. Attracting a working child requires a plan that can encourage the child to study. A child who smuggles fuel across the border is reluctant to go to school because of his natural livelihood. We must use the capacity of the Basij and the jihadist forces to identify and recruit children who have dropped out of school.
Regarding the need for cooperation between various institutions in solving the problem of dropping out of school, the Deputy Minister of Primary Education said: “Building a school is not our last step.” We need school help today. We need focused actions and the unity of procedures of various institutions. We invite school-building donors to help us in the field of cooperation, management and administration of schools.