Need to Identify and Bring Back Dropout Students in Lorestan

Khorramabad – The Director General of Education in Lorestan Province stressed the need to identify and bring back students who have dropped out of school in the province.

According to Mehr reporter, Seyyed Isa Sohrabi, in the meeting of Lorestan's educational justice specialized working group, considered educational justice to be one of the important concerns of the government and emphasized the necessity of redoubled efforts of the education system to provide equal educational opportunities.

Pointing to the importance of identifying students who are deprived of education, he listed the registration of all students and the prevention of dropping out of education as important missions of education and stated: No student should be deprived of the opportunity to study due to economic or family problems.

The necessity of increasing students' motivation to continue their studies

The Director General of Education of Lorestan requested to identify and introduce the students who have not registered in the new academic year due to living conditions or have left the education cycle.

Sohrabi added: With the cooperation of the education complex and related institutions and organizations, the obstacles to the education of these students should be identified and the grounds for their return to school should be provided. Because the realization of educational justice is not only limited to the provision of facilities, but also requires that no child be deprived of the right to education due to economic, social or family conditions.

He also emphasized the need for creativity and initiative in the implementation of educational justice programs and said: we should increase the motivation of students to continue their education by adopting effective measures and creating a lively and hopeful environment in schools and not allow existing problems and obstacles to affect their educational future.

Investigating the situation of Lorestan based on 20 indicators of educational justice

In the continuation of this meeting, the situation of Lorestan province was examined based on the educational atlas and 20 indicators defined for educational justice in the Supreme Council of Education.

These indicators include areas such as educational coverage rate, average retention of students in academic courses, dropout rate in elementary school, graduation rate, dropout rate and hope for education.

Mohammad Alijani, the secretary of Lorestan's specialized working group for educational justice, stated in this meeting: Based on the results of educational justice indicators between 1398 and 1402, Lorestan province had a higher status than the national average in 12 indicators out of a total of 20 indicators.

Pointing to the necessity of continuing planning in this area, he emphasized the importance of reducing educational deprivations and identifying students who are left out of education.

In this meeting, the precise identification of students left out of school, the strengthening of cooperation between related institutions and providing the context for their return to schools were among the main axes of the investigations. An issue that emphasizes the necessity of paying attention to the right of all children and teenagers to have the opportunity to learn along with the evaluation of statistical indicators of educational justice.