POVERTY LIMITS TO ACCESS OF EDUCATION

Poverty has been a serious problem facing all of society and also students over the
years. Students from low-income families are more likely to leave school without graduating.
Poverty and lack of education are big challenges being faced by the world, especially the
students, the problem is that low-income families don't put their children in schools. Even if
they want to there are no proper schools available. Poverty has an adverse effect on student
performance and studies have shown that students in poverty are below grade level at much
higher rates and that they generally have poor or average grades. These educational deficits
provide a serious handicap for students in poverty. The question is how far have these
programs served as a veritable instrument of Poverty alleviation in the country?

Poverty is often given as an important reason why learners drop out of school. Inability
to pay school fees, the costs of uniforms, shoes, transport, and stationary, added to the
opportunity costs of what children might be contributing to household labor, eat away at
meager resources and push children from school. School fees have been singled out for blame
as a particularly burdensome cost and organizations such as the Education Rights Project
have been campaigning for their complete abolition Department of Education has
implemented a number of indigent policies in an attempt to surmount the inhibiting costs of
accessing schools, most notably that of declaring schools in the bottom two quintiles fee-free.
Pro-poor financing policies redistribute government expenditure in favor of the poorest
schools. In addition, households whose monthly income is between 10 and 30 times the
school fee in quintiles 3 and 4 qualify for a full or partial fee exemption. Although such
measures are important in easing entry to and progress through school, these policies only
address the most obvious material constraints of school attendance. Absolute poverty, which
refers to households living below the minimum necessary to sustain subsistence, cannot
explain any accesses or drop-out patterns. 

Poverty is the state of a person's insufficient material or income balance for his or her
needs. Explanation: Country's unstable economic trend is one of the main causes of changing
dynamics of one balance. This poor person cannot afford a healthy and balanced diet, nice
clothes, proper education, a stable and clean house, etc. because all these facilities require
money and they don't even have money to feed two meals a day then how can they afford to pay
for these facilities?