Anti-dropout team with special mission

Many years ago, during the harvest season, students from extremely disadvantaged areas and ethnic minority areas in Dak Ha district would drop out of school. Children of school age often had to go to the fields to help their parents. Not wanting students to drop out of school, in 2012, Dak Ha district directed communes to establish many groups to prevent students from dropping out of school.

Mr. A Jem (right) propagates and mobilizes students to go to class.

The members of the group are usually village chiefs, party cell secretaries, women's union presidents, village elders, village chiefs and influential people. The group's task is to participate in propaganda for families whose children are at risk of dropping out of school. From there, they can motivate the children to attend school regularly and no longer be afraid to go to class.

Mr. A Jem, Head of the anti-dropout group in Kon Trang Mo Nay village (Dak La commune, Dak Ha district), shared that there were cases where students followed their parents to the fields to work and then stayed. The anti-dropout group had to go through the forest and climb mountains to reach the place to spread the message. Only after hearing the village elders and village chiefs' persuasion and advice did the families let their children go back to school.

"Realizing that studying is very important and necessary to help escape poverty, we regularly propagate and mobilize children in the village, especially problem students. Recently, the village's anti-dropout team has mobilized more than 30 children to return to school," said Mr. A Jem.

Not only mobilizing students, the anti-dropout group also propagates through loudspeakers or reminds parents to pay more attention to studying through village meetings. Thanks to that, people also pay more attention to their children's studies, and the attendance rate is increasingly improved.

The anti-dropout team supports schools in motivating students to go to school.

In Dak Long commune (Dak Ha district), the model of anti-dropout groups has also been implemented for many years and brought about practical results.

Mr. A Luyh, Head of Pa Cheng Village (Dak Long Commune), said that the village has 4 anti-dropout groups. For more than 3 years, the anti-dropout groups have been maintained to help students go to school more conveniently.

Mr. Mai Van Vien, Vice Principal of Dak La Secondary School, said that in the 2023-2024 school year, the school has 765 students, of which 489 are ethnic minorities. Since the beginning of the year, 15 students have been frequently absent from school, so the school has coordinated with local authorities and the anti-dropout team to visit their homes, understand their circumstances, and encourage them to return to school to learn, and all 15 students have committed to returning to school.

Mr. Vien shared that in previous school years, the attendance rate was only about 80%. Since the local government and the anti-dropout team got involved, the attendance rate has increased, basically reaching 93%, at times reaching more than 96%.

Ms. Le Thi Nhung, Head of the Department of Education and Training of Dak Ha District, said that after more than 10 years of establishment, the anti-dropout groups in the area have been active, contributing to improving the quality of education. Up to now, 10/11 communes and towns in the district have implemented this model.

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