Child labour is another bait that has attracted children in Africa to quit school. Most school children, as a result of poverty are offered into the hands of some financially endowed people within our communities to work as labourers,mini bus conductors,house helps and several others. At places where there are big rivers,these children are given out to help other fishermen in fishing. At the river side they operate fishing boats,cast net and also draw the nets that have made a catch. This is very serious issue that needs a very swift attention because it is at the expense of education that these boys and girls are given out to work. Please, is this not a pity that young parents are not working to support their children at school rather students are working for money to support their families?
To end with, teenage pregnancy and early pregnancy is another factor which is drawing students from school in our part of the world. Many students have gotten themselves glued to unprotected sex which eventually results in pregnancy among school girls. It is known to these students that engaging in sexual intercourse is practically reserved for married couple and their curiosity to enjoy sex would definitely result them parenting a child. It would be very difficult for a teenager under a school course complete his or her program of study when he or she becomes pregnant or becomes a father to a child. The subject of teenage pregnancy is not even attributed to students in one community but it is embraced rampantly by many students in the district. As soon as wards become parents while in school, they get themselves riddled with shame, guilt and a sense of disappointing their parents for wasting their resources and also not being able to successfully complete their course.
I hope that losing students to rural-urban migration,child labour and teenage pregnancy could be easily rectified from your end through certain measures. I wish therefore that you would react to these concerns as early as possible to improve the school enrolment in our part of the world.
