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Quitting school is more common and get worse ( News)

By Sharreh Rocco

Many students are quitting school due to lack of having high education opportunity in the Karenni Refugee Camps, said Karenni Education Department (KnED).

When combined the number of the two camps, at least 198 students quitted schooling last year (2004-2005). Even though the term of academic schooling for this year is not yet finished, the number of quitting seems even larger according to Augustino, KnED Director.

Students are quitting school due to lack of good payment in the community and further study opportunity even though finishing Post-ten schools, which are recognized by Karenni Community as the highest and the most essential.

A quitted student,21, of nine standards from Camp 1 High School said he quitted school because available work is only to become teacher and medic, which he dislikes to become, but have no other choices even though he finishes Post-ten schools.

Lack of good job opportunity in the camp and hope of further study made him to the final of leaving school, he emphasized.

" In my thinking, as long as living in Refugee Camp a Post-ten-finished student and a high school-finished student are quite the same in their implementation, because how far can they implement with their skill"

"Restriction must be counted. It might be true in the youths' thinking that we are staying with restriction. They can't really implement to the community the work with the skill we have learnt" said Director Augustino to KHNA.

As most students who quit are males and then going to work in the neighboring Thai villages, females are quitted because of getting pregnant before marriage.

According to survey of KnED, a student is jailed in Mae Hong Son because of illegally working in Thailand.

Pointing at the need of the students, an official from Karenni Education Department said," students are not good at behavior anymore, by just looking at this, we see that society is also needed in terms of helping fostering the youths, students. I want to say that our culture needs to be maintained".

Some left school because of the hardship in the family.

Karenni Post-ten schools are only equivalent to internationally-recognized middle school.

Karenni Refugee Camps are locating in the Northern part of Thailand in province of Mae Hong Son with an population of about 24,000.