Mayank Mani, another member of the team said, “In order to get the perspective of the head of a school, we approached the principal of a Government run school in Vadugarpet. We chose such a school as the infrastructure and facilities here may not be comparable with that of a school in a semi-urban zone. This was a location with moderate bus connectivity, no real restaurants nearby the schools, and we assumed only basic requirements were present at the school.”
The team concluded that the major reason students dropped out was that they were unexposed to exams till class 8 and when exposed to them in class 9, they couldn’t handle it. Also, the schooling environment till class 8, with no exams, means that students reach class 9 without the basic skills that are expected from them. The team plans to create further awareness among the various teachers of Government school to reduce the dropout rates in higher education through ‘Train the teachers’ sessions with the guidance of Holy Cross Service Society.
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