MODFL/Mainstream/Reasons

In Activity 1 above, you identified reasons why children and youth are not in school. Here are some of the common factors that constrain participation in education. You may want to compare with the list you have compiled for activity one and see which ones apply in your context.

Table 1: Factors pushing children out of school

	Common (generic) factors	Factors you identified in your context
1.	Geographical barriers
2.	Natural hazards
3.	Poverty
4.	High opportunity costs of attending school full time
5.	Quality of schools
6.	Unstimulating (irrelevant) curriculum
7.	Lack of flexible hours of attendance
8.	Teacher absenteeism
9.	Teacher shortages
10.	Misperceptions about education
11.	Few or no second-chance opportunities