Challenges of Students Who Come From Single Parents on Their Educational Attainment At Yekaite 66 Secondary School
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2018-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges of students who come from single
parents in attaining secondary school education at Yekatite 66 secondary school in Arada sub
city of Addis Ababa. In order to obtain relevant information in depth, semi-structured interviews
were conducted with single parented students and their teachers with the combination of Focus
Group Discussion (FGD) as well as document review. For this purpose, the data were collected
from ten students from single parents and five teachers have participated in the study to obtain
the necessary data.The data collected were analyzed using thematic analysis or major idea
analysis. The findings from the study revealed that challenges that single parented students face
in attaining secondary education are multidimensional and complex. They are complex because
one causes the other or no single challenge that stand on its own. Those challenges are economic
hard ship, poor parental care, low parental involvement and emotional challenges (loneliness,
hesitation for their parents love and helpless). In consequence, those challenges have negative
effects on single parented students’ class attendance, concentration, academic performance,
behavior and forced them to drop out of the school. The study also suggests that the school
encourage educating youths to be economically self supportive and good family members. The
school guidance and counseling officers should work co-operately to the school administration in
order to identify and to support students from single parent homes to overcome their emotional
problems. This will help them to concentrate and work hard at school as the same time it will
improve their academic as well as their future life.
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Challenges of Students Who Come From Single Parents