Sociology with Family Planning
CHAPTER I
The Problem and its Environment
“Education is the key to success.” Nobody can deny the hard fact that education is an extremely important for bringing change in the lives of individual but not all of us were given a chance to attend a formal school. It has universally been recognized as the most powerful instrument for gearing up the socio-economic development of the nation.
Out of school youth means having a vulnerable people who have needs. In fact, it can be said that it is pre-condition for the overall up-lift and welfare of nation. This is why investment in education is considered to be vital for human resource development and the enhancement of the quality of manpower. It is clear that the composition and characteristics of this most crucial part of population goes along the way in the process of national development of the policy makers and planners in their planning and decision making for the future.
According to the Law, every child must attend a formal school were he/she wants. The government should ensure and support the education of every child. That’s why the Department of Education offers free education to all. But this is not really applied by other institutions for they are concern on the salary of the teachers especially in private school. Public schools offer free tuition for enrollment for elementary but also in High School students. This may count for high enrollment in schools, although the enrollment has a high result, many poor families in unable to finance the ancillary school needs of their children. The reason why out of school youth happens because of the problems in the family that forces a teenager to work early that they shouldn’t be.
Department of Education has now a program for out of school youth which is the Alternative Learning System (ALS) in which all the non-schoolers are given