Rationale of Engaging in Early Child Leaving
Rationale of Engaging in Early Child Leaving
Rationale of Engaging in Early Child Leaving
Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
Early Child Leaving is constantly the emerging problem in our society. This
usually happens when a student decided to leave the school and finish their studies
early to face the real world. Students involved in Early Child Leaving is also called
'dropping out' or 'dropout' by describing the event in which a person who has
pursue alternative lifestyle. Many teenager are engaged in this kind of problem.
Dealing with this kind of problem, his/her education. We know that education is
very significant to us to reach our goal and there is a possibility that they can't reach
their dream if they not pursue studying. Their lives can be possibly ruined by lack of
knowledge about the consequences of their decision. The factors why students leave
school may be tangled by home issues, school or by the community itself that triggers
the student to leave the school. It may be individual issues or mixed issues such as
poor junior high school preparation as it was pointed out by Times Higher Education (
2013) that other are disoriented by the change from the structured school environment
to the more autonomous Senior High School world. It can be conflict with work and
main reason why students leave the school in the past year was the conflict between
school, job and family. In addition, it can be the lack of quality time with teachers and
counselor. It was explained by Willing and Johnson (2017) that the specific reason for
leaving the school include dissatisfaction and the feel of de-personalized school
environment. It include significant trend from the classroom environment with three
are still having students who are getting involved in Early Child Leaving. The student
should generate knowledge that will help them to find job that suits their personalities,
skills and specialization. The students who leave the school are more likely to be
engaged in child labor or worst, different kinds of addiction. Moreover, they can faced
social stigma, fewer job opportunities lower salaries, and higher probability of
involvement with the criminal justice system (Barton, 2005). Conducting this research
can help to take action regarding the factor that affects the student from leaving the
Researchers have to know the reason or the main cause/s of the problem. It can
be the way for the school and society to be aware and knowledgeable about this
existing problem so they can provide an immediate action to reduce the number of
should be immediately addressed and provide possible in timely manner with these
underlying problem. We can help them out by preventing them to feel isolation,
frustration, a loss of self-esteem, disconnection, confusion. Thus, they will not going to
decide to give up whereas if they proceed in dropping out, it is not just about the
students failing the school but the school failing the student.
Statement of the Problem
1.What are the common reason of the student why they leave from school?
This study is conducted to determine the dilemma that the student who leave the school
met and believed that this study will be a great help in the following;
Community, this study will help the community to be aware and knowledgeable about
school leaving. This will also help to decrease the number of students who leave the
Minimizing the number of students who leave the school will lessen the unwell
criminal deed that will surely affect the community and involvement that will strengthen
School, this will help the school to have a better understanding about this issue and will
help the students and teachers work in harmonious way. The result may also the way
Family, the result may also help the family to support the student who leave the school
to pursue school (if have one) until they graduated and to understand their reason. The
family (if don't have students who leave school) may be aware so that they can give
Future Researchers, the result may somehow expand their studies about school
leaving. This can be a benchmark to have a better understanding about Early Child
Leaving and their connection with personal, family and school factors
The research took place at Atimonan, Quezon and it will be the source of
respondents in the study. The respondents are the one who get involved in Early Child
Leaving which is purposively chosen and to recognize the usual conflict that they
encountered and personal information that affects their school performance such as
parent's income and demographic profile. There are five respondents. The respondents
are the ones who stopped schooling from school year 2018-2020. Gathering of
taken from the answer of the respondents in the questions included in the
questionnaire.
Definition of Terms
Autonomous - existing or acting separately from other things or people; having the
Early Child Leaving - it is an act of departing/getting out from school before the year or
Family Factor - these are the problems faced by the students in connection with
Isolation - the state of being in a place or in a situation that is separate from the others;
Personal Factor - these are the problems encountered by the students that affects
(Merriam-Webster)
belief. (Merriam-Webster)
School Factor - this is the factors in which school-related issues that affects students
person.
Chapter II
In the 21st century, a basis for being a successful student is expected to graduate
from high school and college to be presentable for the workforce or any services and to
be proficient and productive citizen in our society such as voting, paying taxes and
delivering community services. Our country needs brilliant and determined youth
because the nation and the future growth of the country depends on them. The
variety of factors. Early Child Leaving has a direct implication in one's social life and
they are prone to be involved in various activities to make a living. Early Child Leaving
needs to be assessed with the involvement of individual, family, school and community.
According to Kristine Tucker (2019), leaving the school is a personal decision but
many students feel like it is the best option if they have personal or academic problems
that make school attendance a burdensome response. She also mentioned boredom
and academic struggle since high school and college students often leave school
because they struggle academically and don't think they will have a credits necessary to
graduate. Lack of parental support because lack of parental involvement leads the
student to leave school and money since they leave school just to work to earn more
money.
Hence, Gil et al.(2019) stated that the group of factors that most affect school
significant relationships between the different groups of dropout factors are verified, and
no significant differences were observed between the responses of teachers with
teaching functions and those with management functions and they proposed various
Also, Smink (2013) stated that the young people consequently lack many of the
basic skills needed from future success. The anecdotal reasons provided by students
for dropping out of school, both before and after they actually leave school, are well
documented and have been consistent for more than a decade. He also mentioned the
most of the reasons focus on students' dissatisfaction with school policies and practices.
disengagement with school and sometimes starting very early in elementary school or
correlation, as the decision to leave school may be driven by exogenous factors, or may
even result from systematic flaws, rather than factors intrinsic to dropout themselves
The structural inequality may not only cause early school le having but also for
health problems or poverty that is turn may be at the origin of dropping out.
Furthermore, Kadil (2015), stated in his study that in the Philippines, one of the reasons
why number of dropout were very rampant is due to the conflict or war in the Mindanao
Region and due to natural calamities used to devastate the country which the common
leaving is present to their system. The 12 reasons were family feud, drugs, natural
issues in different aspects. According to Koyalirie (2018), the student who are not
interested in studying or do not understand the relevant course, they will show no
interest in studies and they will be mostly likely to commit crimes, can start taking drugs,
Some students have negative attitude toward school, risk factor could be for the
family, individual, school or the community. They are likely to earn less than educated
people, their socio-economic status could suffer and people may not respect them or
cannot provide facilities to themselves and families. As narrates that one personality
could suffer a lot, as when he/she become dependent on the family or government. In
addition, there are two phenomenon needed to understand, the individual perspective
and the institutional perspective. Dropout can never compete with the one who is
educated.
Students who leave the school may be more talented but for the community and
country, they are not equal. Student who leave school have to face criticism from the
society and they can suffer a lot in their future life, government and society need to
understand their feelings, and try to seek out their problems. They are more likely to
suffer from pain, they could be going in depression and their mental and physical
capabilities may be affected. Koyalirie pointed out that students should remain in
school, staying in school can allow them to value learning and they can value the
learning path.
Besides, Liftof (2017) added that the number of students disengaged in high
school has fallen significantly since 1990. Many of today's young people still facing
troubles that put them in risk. Without completing high school, these students will have a
harder time in succeeding in today's workforce. Students who leave school also faced
higher unemployment rates because in 2015, the National Unemployment Rate for high
and even practicing occultism and 'blood money' in order to have a living (Hunt, 2007).
This however, makes them unfit in the face of social rules of society which makes most
of them end their lives in prison while others got killed through robbery. Besides, the
individual strains and weariness related to dropout have social repercussions: dropout
make up uneven percentages of every nation's prison and detach row inmates (Hunt et
al., 2007).
William (2015) mentioned about one research study pointed out that 82% of
American's prisoners are high school dropout (as cited in Vermont, 2009). The serious
and worried situation is that, many of the young people used to be brilliant students
when they were in school but financial constraints among others compel them to duck
out schooling and get themselves involved in social vices. This destroys their bright
future which would have a good bearing on society but rather the opposite felt.
Furthermore, Witte et al. (2015) compared the lives of graduated peers to student
who early leave school. He stated that students who leave school are more frequently
associated with long term unemployment, poverty, bleak health prospects, sustained
dependence on public assistance, single parenthood (in females), political and social
But there is something naive about the use of such associations, as they do not
required in interpreting such correlation. However, William et al. (2015) used the public-
use data from 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, it employed multiple
logistic regression with adjustment for complex survey sampling and compared high
school dropouts with graduates with respect to substance use, mental health, and
criminal behavior. After controlling for the effects of age, gender, race/ethnicity, family
population density, dropouts are more likely to meet criteria for nicotine dependence
and report daily cigarette used, and more likely to report having attempted suicide in the
previous year, been arrested for larceny, assault, drug possession or drug sales relative
to their high school graduate counterparts. This provides important insights and aninitial
epidemiologic portrait of mental health, substance use and criminal behavior of dropouts
In this sense, it seems that explanation of leaving the school provide prevention
and intervention efforts we should put accent on and it benefits both school and family
Suarez et al. (2016) emphasized that we should deal with the irresponsible
nature of participants that would probably reduce dropout rates like closer control of
time schedule, monitoring the homework or their recreational activities. Like wise, a
greater prevention and intervention effort aimed to provide parents with educational and
communicational tools that allow them to better monitor adolescents would probably can
lead to a reduction of number of students who get involved in early school leaving. In
addition, parents and teachers might palatable key role in prevention of substance
incompatibles with consumptions such as sport and develop tools that help them to
early detection of substance abuse. For instance, prevention efforts directed to address
substance use and related problems among students who are experiencing academic
Also, they also mentioned about continuing care monitoring systems to track
their progress and to provide more intensive supports are warranted while strategies
such as punitive methods should be avoided. Rather, parents should monitor and
supervise adolescents activities, expressing disapproval of drinking and other drug use
There are many possible factors that affects that leads the students to get
involved with Early Child Leaving and can be a catalyst behind their decisions. Leaving
the school have many consequences, it might be good or bad depending on how the
student who leave the school cope up and alleged with his/her chosen path.
Chapter III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
a. Research Design
The descriptive method was used in the research to know the rationale of a
is a scientific method which involves observing and describing the behavior of one
specific subject without the influence of others. Based in the method used in the study,
through questionnaire was used in gathering data from the respondents. After the
participant answer the questions, researchers describe the responses given. In order for
the interview to be both reliable and valid, it is important that the questions are
constructed properly. Questions should be written so they are clear and easy to
comprehend.
The use of this method will really give reliable ideas for the research. The
purpose of the study was to identify why students quit whether anything could have
prevented them from leaving. Throughout the discussions, the researchers look for
emerging themes relative to the research questions. Qualitative research methods can
reveal description and meaning that is useful to the research study. In fact, qualitative
research creates data that is descriptive and many times observable behavior and is
the person being interviewed. Thus, meaning that the communication is taking place at
the same time and place. The synchronous communication in a face-to-face interview
gives the researcher the advantage to view social cues such as voice, body language,
intonation, etc. It also allows the interviewer to ask additional questions in order to delve
b. Research Locale
This study was conducted in Atimonan, Quezon. The town is where the
researchers lived and the researchers focus was Atimonan National Comprehensive
High School who has a number of students who get involved in Early Child Leaving.
The researchers also knew a lot of students who leave school with the reason is still
unknown to them.
c. Respondents
The respondents of this study are the students who get involved in Early Child
Leaving and Atimonan National Comprehensive High School is the school where the
respondents that leave the school around 2018 - 2020. There will be no gender
preference and age limit in getting the data and information needed since the personal
technique. To gather the needed data the researchers secure a permission to get
interview outside the school premises as long as it is not too far away from the
researchers residence. After permission is secured, they are going will personally talk to
their research adviser to solicit his cooperation. The researchers will also notify and ask
the permission of the parent of the student. The researchers will encourage the
respondents for participation noting that the personal information are confidential. Once
e. Conceptual Framework
The conceptual framework shows the extent of the factors affecting the
students to leave the school that may be classified into home, community and/or school
issues. These factors affects life of the students and the student's family and how they
cope up and the alternative lifestyle they chose. The factors are going to be analyzed by
Effects
Alternative Lifestyle
Analysis
Result