{"id":25215,"date":"2016-05-09T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gicumbi-tracks-returns-more-than-7000-children-to\/"},"modified":"2016-05-14T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T06:25:12","slug":"gicumbi-tracks-returns-more-than-7000-children-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gicumbi-tracks-returns-more-than-7000-children-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Gicumbi tracks, returns more than 7000 children to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Gicumbi district has a big number of school dropouts that provide labor in tea plantations,  mines and drying bricks.}<\/p>\n<p>Gicumbi district says they will track and return to school over 7000 school drop outs from primary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on assumptions of people who attribute misbehaving of children to careless parents, Hitimana Fran\u00e7ois, a resident of Kageyo sector has told IGIHE that he doesn\u2019t understand how a child becomes naughty.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt is shameful to see young children drop out of school.  We all know that children belong to the country, yet some parents still hold traditional customs that God grows the children? How come teachers keep quiet when children drop out of school?\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n<p>The Gicumbi deputy mayor in charge of social welfare, Benihirwe Charlotte attributed the matter of school dropouts to carelessness of parents and educators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have cases of school drop-outs among children. We are also addressing it with the  parents, reminding them to  carry their responsibilities  towards their children. We are also working with educators who have to respect duties at school. I don\u2019t understand how a teacher of a child keeps quiet even after realizing that a child has abandoned  school attendance, even for one week or more. Why can\u2019t he\/she feel responsible other than watching passively the scene of dropouts till the term ends,\u201d she, too, wondered. <\/p>\n<p>Various stakeholders from Gicumbi district are working in unison to address the matter of school dropouts. Parents and teachers are asked to play their role while any headmaster whose school is found with unreported school dropouts will be punished. <\/p>\n<p>The district has pledged to have brought back all students who abandoned school not later than the end of the second school trimester that will end on July 22nd 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics from Gicumbi district indicates that 7,728 children have dropped out in primary schools while 23 have abandoned secondary schools. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12211 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/akarere_ka_gicumbi_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Gicumbi district offices \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Gicumbi district has a big number of school dropouts that provide labor in tea plantations, mines and drying bricks.} Gicumbi district says they will track and return to school over 7000 school drop outs from primary and secondary schools. 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