Voluntary School/College dropouts

We all agree education is necessary, education is essential, education sort of ends poverty, unemployment, inequality and can cite abound issues that education can possibly solve. I don’t talk about measures that the governments have been taking to ensure free/paid basic education to all. Let’s not talk about the flaws of our education system here. That’s a whole another concept. Let’s say there are all available and efficient sources for a child to educate. There are (may be) voluntary dropouts of students despite having a suitable environment to get educated. Why? The socio, economic and cultural conditions come into thee picture here.

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Pranay is a 20 year old boy, who has paused his education after completing his 10^th standard. His father is a daily wage worker and his mother is a homemaker. One can tell theirs is a below middle income family by the looks of them. He was a troubled kid from the childhood actually. Quoting illogical reasons for bunking the school, carrying on a very bad attitude were all encouraged by his own parents and family, when he was too young. A a matter of fact, those things made their life happier. As the time passed his attitude, behaviour had really raised concerns.

By the time he was 14, he was gradually getting into malicious distractions that many children of his age usually get into—tobacco, alcohol and drug usage. The worried parents tried to do something. They pout him in a hostel, hoping for a change. He, practically ran off from the hostel, promising his parents that he would never get into such distractions again. Things were quite for a while. After a while, he couldn’t refrain himself from addictions. His parents tried talking to him, made emotional attempts to make him realise to what he is getting into. His family, friends, well wishes tried to put him back on good track. Nothing seemed to workout. 

By the time he was 17, even his parents thought he was a gone case because when they tried to confront him for the things he have been doing, rather feeling guilty, he was actually blaming his parents for not raising him good. One serious dialogue would lead to serious suicide warnings. He now works in a cloth shop and earns not more than three thousand rupees. He uses those money for satisfying his kind of essentials for life. 

He disrespects his mother, abuses his father, breaks things in home whenever a heated discussion happens. Irony is he maintains a girlfriend and enlightens people on emotions and love through the so called social media apps. I know that a lot of you may think that therapy or psychologist consultation may work. But the thing is is the family isn’t affordable for such type of things. 

Seriously, what shall those parents do? Not just them, we can find numerous examples of voluntary dropouts. How shall those be dealt?