Abstract
Education is portrayed at the high on political agenda of all the democratic and dictatorship
regimes in Pakistan but the figures related to literacy and enrollment rates at compulsory
primary education level are still very low. After 70 years of independence, the homeland is
still striving to achieve the millennium development goals. To meet the international standards
and targets of literacy, access to compulsory quality education and 100% enrollment for the
school age children different efforts have been made time and again. The enrollment has
become better than previous times but the serious problem of the system is low retention rate
and high dropout rate at primary school level. The dropping out of students from compulsory
education level is a universal phenomenon for almost all the developing nations. To retain the
students at school it is needed to explore that why the students leave school before completion
of primary education level. This study was an effort to unfold the experiences of dropouts’
parents and teachers about the factors that lead students to drop out. This qualitative inquiry
was conducted through interviews of 104 dropouts’ parents and teachers identified through
snow ball sampling technique from a district of Punjab-Pakistan. The data were collected by
following the research ethics through interviews conducted by using two interview schedules.
The interviews were then transcribed and tabulated for thematic analysis. The analysis of data
revealed that school related, family related and individual related causes are the most
prevalent than others that force the students for dropping out. It is suggested that this
phenomenon can be controlled by improving existing schools physically and operationally for
transforming it into an attractive, safe and healthy place of learning. The vulnerable students
should be timely identified for individual level remedial measures and their families may be
involved and supported ethically and financially.
Muhammad Shahid Farooq. (2017) Understanding Educational Disconnect at Primary School Level Precursor, Factors and Causes, Journal of Elementary Education, Volume-27, Issue-1.
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