Over half of the children of first grade ages are not in schools, a serious factor that can delay their learning capacities.
Worst, their late sending to elementary is feared to affect their study attitude and may discourage them later.
Another unwanted consequence of this is the rise of the population of the out-of-school youths, many of whom, according police observations, can end up lawless or community misfits.
Department of Education (DepEd) Bohol superintendent Dr. Elpidio Jala told the Chronicle that 56% of the children of age six have lately been found out not enrolled for Grade I.
He clarified, though, that the statistics is of nationwide application.
Jala would yet verify if such a sorry state is also that obtaining among the supposedly first schoolers in Bohol.
The education official said many parents may have thought that six-year-old children are "too premature" for Grade I.
Poverty situation is also peeped into, especially that the prices now of even ordinary school supplies have gone up. -
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