El school dropout It is one of the most serious problems in Spanish education, and it is that we continue to be leaders in the European Union on this issue. According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Education, from 2019, the average school dropout in Spain is 17,3%, the goal for 2020 is to drop 15%, but it does not seem likely.
Without wanting to solve the question, we do want to offer teachers, fathers and mothers some alternatives and tips so that this rate of early school leaving does not continue to exceed the average of the European Union, 10,6%.
Proposals against early school leaving
Some of the options available from unions and education specialists are:
- Give academic and professional orientationthe students, and encourage scientific and technical vocations among girls.
- Increase FP offer, especially in the rural world. Also in distance courses and professional practices.
- Facilitate access by number and amount of scholarships and aid in non-university education.
- Provide greater flexibility to the educational system. You can increase second chance programs in public education, make the Baccalaureate more flexible so that it can be done in four years, suppress the ESO title, for one of skills.
- Maintain and reinforce the measures of attention to diversity.
- Increase the supply of program to obtain the qualification of ESO and / or Baccalaureate, by means of free tests.
Implement and reinforce the Reinforcement, Guidance and Support Programs (PROA) in Secondary Education. - Raise a social and educational debate to eliminate repetition course in basic and compulsory education.
promote educational support measures, such as reinforcements (two teachers in the classroom), flexibility, curricular adaptations, collaborative work, restructuring of classrooms, etc.
Resources to prevent dropouts
Knowing and implementing the appropriate tools to detect a student who may drop out of education is essential to prevent it. We talk about some tools that can help you do it.
Knowing some of the factors that influence school failure and subsequent dropout is essential. Have references on the family atmosphere of the student, their level of self-esteem, level of attention, degree of motivation, etc.
You must be attentive to señales that could indicate learning difficulties or demotivation, and present alternative study techniques. And do it from the guidelines to follow: before the study, during, after and at the time of taking the exam. Thus the student, student, has an organized scheme of what is best at all times.
Professionals who work to prevent early school leaving agree that on a personal level one of the factors is the requirement, or self-demand, for getting high marks. And the feeling of failure by not obtaining them, even if the results are optimal.
Decalogue for families
Through the Orientación Andújar website, the Mapfre Foundation makes available to parents and teachers, but especially to families, a decalogue to avoid school failure.
Each of these ten points are developed from two questions: how and for what. We take the value of trust as an example. This is an important value, as confidence predisposes to action and success. In How to help your son or daughter to acquire that confidence, we talk about the family putting itself in the child's place. The need to create habits that favor balance and tranquility is emphasized, and some practical examples are proposed.
You can watch a Prezi story with your child, it's called Story of a school failure, that recounts the life of a young woman from her childhood until she arrived at the institute, and how her attitude towards her studies changes until one day she abandons them. At the end there are three shorts that deal with school failure from different perspectives.