Dear Editor,
In many hinterland schools of Guyana there is one main issue affecting our standard of education and that is our students dropping out of secondary schools.

In some instances lack of finance causes our young boys to leave school to pursue logging or mining in the interior, while our young girls stay home to assist their parents with household chores. For the first time in my community a student has reached fifth form at the Aurora Secondary School. Though this can be seen as an achievement, it tells the story that all our former students have dropped out of secondary schools because of one reason or another. In fact none has gone beyond Form 3……