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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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