Pregnancies amongst pupils saddest reality

Primary school going pupils are hardest hit by pregnancies
Primary school going pupils are hardest hit by pregnancies

Amid several reasons that have given birth to declining standards of education in the country, student indiscipline cannot go unmentioned. Recently Lobatse Town Council legislators and stakeholders including police and education regional officers sat in a full council meeting to address their biggest headache, teenage pregnancies. This anomaly is the leading reason for school dropouts in Lobatse. Mmegi correspondent TUMELO MOUWANE reports

In a full council report delivered by Lobatse Urban Development Committee, representative, Gaomodimo Ntlotlang, stakeholders learnt that at least 24 students dropped out of schools in Lobatse in 2016 alone.  Of that number 15 of the students including a 12-year-old Standard Five pupil quit school due to pregnancy.

One of the students was a Form Two student whilst nine were in Form Four and six were in Form Five. Moreover nine of the 24 students dropped out due to desertion. Alcohol related social ills, poverty and lack of parental monitoring were associated with the dropping out of schools.

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