The causes of students dropouts in Tagbitanag national high school, Samal district, IGACOS

Abstract

This study was a case study design aimed to determine the "Causes of students drop out in Tagbitanag national high school SY 2013-2016." This study explored the factors involved in why students drop out of school. It proposed that students do not just decide one day that they are tired of school and stop attending, and that instead, there is a series of events that occur long before the student make the decision that he/she is planning to leave the school. Through the review of literature and interviews with the respondents of this study who discovered what the common factors were those who drop out of school. This study accumulated the causes of dropping out such as peer pressure, teachers' factor, early marriage, early pregnancy, and truancy. Through the result, the researchers come up with this recommendation, school should implements a program such as anti bullying, seminars for early marriage and sex education and teachers should improve their teaching strategies during discussion. It provides accounts of personal experiences and literature on theses issues and combined this information in attempt to identify what happened in the educational experiences of students to cause them to drop out of school.