CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The issue of truancy in Tanzania is a critical problem now days.Most students they do not complete their course of study becouse of truancy which lead them to drop out from schooling.most students especially girls are ending up by geting married and those who are not married are geting pregnancies.most boys who are truant are employed for liltle wages and others using drugs and others engage in criminal issues.The study want to realise all social economic factors contributing to this tendency in order to improve the education of the children for the super development of the nation at large.
Truancy is a serious problem in Tanzania education system today which need highly attention in schools administrators, and teachers in schools in order to prevent high rate of students drop out from schooling(www.mkombozi.org.mkombozi centre for street children) In school truancy is a term used to describe any intentional unauthorized absence from compulsory schooling. Children today lose over hundred days of their time to stay at school through truancy. The young girls and boys of the schooling age are not at school in steady working in entertainments areas eg, Clubs, (www.edu.org/susan Scheff, 2007).
Reducing truancy and exclusions
levels are an important part of Government social inclusion
policy. Young people who attend
school regularly are more likely to get the most they can out
of their time
at school, and therefore more likely to achieve their potential,
and less likely to
take part in
anti-social or criminal behaviour(www.education.com/social
exclusion unit, 1998).
There is some evidence showed that poor literacy is, in some cases, a causal factor. An early survey by the Children’s Society showed that the majority of those who are permanently excluded are boys aged between 13 and 15, most having started secondary school with a
reading age behind that of their peers. This is backed up by Ofsted who reported that poor attendance was within those students who are poor readers
Recommendations by the (www.edu.com/1998 Social Exclusion Unit) report include dealing early with children’s literacy and numeracy problems so that they catch up, and providing extra-curricular activities and experiences to improve motivation among those at risk of becoming disaffected. Teenage girls who are excluded from school should not be overlooked either,otherwise they should be helped in order to achieve in their education.