Publication: Socio-economic factors influencing boy- child drop Out rate in public day secondary schools in Chemaner Zone, Bomet East Sub-County, Bomet County
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2015-08
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Mount Kenya University
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The government of Kenya has placed certain measures to give basic education to its citizens by
introducing Free Primary Education and Free Day Secondary Education. Despite this effort,
students both boys and girls have been dropping out of school. School dropout for both boys
and girls is a very serious issue not only in Kenya but also in the whole world. The main
purpose for the study was to investigate the socio-economic factors that influence boy-child
dropout from public day secondary schools in Chemaner Zone, Bomet East Sub-County, Bomet
County. The objectives of the study were to find out how family size, parental level of education
and parental income influence the drop out of the boy-child from public day secondary schools
in Bomet East sub-county. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The target
population was comprised of the 11 principals of the public day secondary schools, 25 class
teachers from Form 3 and Form 4 classes in the eleven schools, 550 boys (Form 3 and Form 4
boys only). Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 6 public day
secondary schools out of 11. Twelve teachers out of 25 teachers The principals and the class
teachers of the selected secondary schools were selected to be part of the sample while the boys
were selected through simple random sampling to a maximum of 300 making a total of 318
respondents. Data was collected using questionnaires, interviews and document analysis (school
records like registers). The collected data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential
statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings of the study were
that family size influences boy-child drop out from public day secondary schools
positively, parental level of education also influence boy- child drop out from public day
secondary school and parental income influence boy-child drop out from public day
secondary school in Bomet East sub county. From the findings of this study the researcher
recommended that the parents should be sensitized on the importance of boy- child education,
every school should make it mandatory for parents to meet annually and discuss problems faced
by boys in schools and that the government should provide funds to support boys from poor
families.
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