Evaluating The Factors That Influence Parents To Enroll Their Children In Private Schools In Taluka Sehwan Sharif, District Jamshoro, Sindh

Abstract

Education is a basic right to every child and also the base of sustainable development as well as social equity. Lack of proper schooling at the government level characterized by poor infrastructure, teacher commitment and learning environment has posed real problem towards the mobilization of parents in rural Pakistan to enroll their children in the private educational system. This study undertakes the aspect that influences the parental choices particularly in the parents of the girl students to join the privately managed schools in Taluka Sehwan Sharif, Jamshoro District, Sindh. The study will have five distinct objectives namely, 1,To determine the influence of the community involvement in the decision of the parents.2.To determine the influences of human resource in the decision made by parents.3.To determine how instructional approaches can impact parental decision.4.To determine how presence of the physical school environment influences parental choice concerning their decision.

1. To determine how school infrastructure influences parental choices.Survey and responses were measured within the closed-ended structured questionnaire with the use of 5-point Likert scale where a population of higher number, (4, 240) parent of the girl students was interviewed with a sample size of 366 appearing according to Yamane formula. Analysis on descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation was done. The APA style was employed in making of citations and references in the form of software. It was identified that parents were very content with attendance and classroom tidiness of the teachers and were very concerned with inadequate ventilation, absence of any temperature regulation, inability to obtain access to pure drinking water and the broken school boundaries. School leadership and parental involvement have been rated low and irregular respectively. The study suggests targeted interventions in many directions such as infrastructure development, school leadership and community-school interaction approach towards quality education to all.

Keywords:

Parental choice Parental decision-making, girl student enrollment, private school, community participation, human resource, teaching methodology, physical infrastructure of the school, school infrastructures, Taluka sehwan shairif, rural education in Sindh