Bangladesh has made significant progress in education over the past two decades. Still, many school-aged children from the poorest families in Bangladesh either do not enroll or discontinue school due to poverty.
In 2004, nearly 1.5 million primary school-aged children were out of school in Banglades. The government’s program focused on the formal primary sector that supported about 17 million students and still many children were out of school. These were the children who had missed out schooling at the “right age” or had been forced to drop out, mainly because of poverty. Many could not afford to buy uniforms or books, to pay for transport if they lived far from the school or might have been needed to earn vital income to feed the family. As a consequence, these children were deprived of education which drastically reduced their chances of finding higher earning jobs that could lift them and their families out of poverty.
I think that the education system in Bangladesh is not up to date with the twenty first century. The whole system, it is not modern enough to prepare students for real life. In the developed countries such as Japan, so many students don’t like school, however, in the developing countries like Bangladesh, almost of all children want to go school to learn. We take it for granted that children go to school because almost 100% pupils finish compulsory education here in Japan, on the other han, children in Bangladesh hardly go to school due to poverty.