Attendance low as students stay home to care for younger siblings
The Hindu
‘This is a big problem particularly for families who have migrated from rural areas’
Many students in upper primary and high schools hailing from lower economic sections of society are not attending physical classes as they are busy taking care of their younger siblings while their parents are at work. Lower primary classes have been closed since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.
“This is a major problem particularly for families who have migrated from rural areas as they have no other family support system. They cannot leave their younger children alone,” said Nagasimha G. Rao, director of Child Rights Trust (CRT). CRT is working with 21 families who are facing this problem. Child rights’ activists are worried that these children in the long run may drop out of school, or be made to work.
Non-governmental organisations and child rights’ activists are not the only ones to have flagged this. Various officials of the Department of Primary and Secondary Education have noticed this trend as well.
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