Factors that contribute to girl’s dropout in some selected secondary school within Damaturu metropolis, Yobe state

Yagana Abba Sidi 1, *, Amina Garba Muhammad 1 and James Audu Ngala 2

1 Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery Along Gujuba Road Opposite Specialist Hospital Damaturu Yobe State, Nigeria.
2 Department of Education Yobe State University P.M.B. 1144 Damaturu Yobe State, Nigeria.
 
Research Article
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2021, 02(01), 055-065.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2021.2.1.0036
Publication history: 
Received on 25 November 2020; revised on 09 February 2021; accepted on 11 February 2021
 
Abstract: 
A developing nation without or with low child-girls education is in danger. There is an adage which say whoever trained a girl has a plan for a future generations based on these Factors that contribute to girl dropout in some selected secondary schools, within Damaturu metropolis, was carried out, guided by six (6) objectives and six (6) research questions each. The subjects used in this study consist of teachers, parents and students from ten (10) secondary schools. Random sampling technique was used to select thirty respondents’ one parent, one teacher and one student from each school respectively. The instrument used for this study was questionnaire, frequency and percentage of the response were used to analyse the data collected. The research find out those factors such as poor economic status, broken home, death of bread winner and gender inequality causes girls dropout in secondary school. Other factors include unwanted pregnancy, early marriage hawking, negative behavior by parents, drunker and illiterate parents. Government should provide infrastructure and jobs which will enable parents to take care of their wards. Seminars and workshops should be organize to encourage parents and guidance, scholarships program may be put in place for girl child education and finally non-government organization to come on board to aid girl child education.
 
Keywords: 
Marriage; Poverty; Puberty; Religion; Domestic Works; Unwanted Pregnancy; Culture.
 
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