Dropout rate high among kids from low income families in Jaffna after pandemic

By Dinasena Ratugamage

The number of school dropouts had increased following the COVID pandemic, Jaffna education officials said recently at the district development committee meeting.

Almost all of these children were from low income families and they were now working as labourers, they said.

Education officials added that the pandemic had adversely affected the education system and that a large number of children in lower grades struggled to read and write.

The government had to address this situation urgently, they said.