Paradigm FM News
06,Aug,2025
Kagadi
The Kagadi district probation officer Steven Banakora has raised concern about the growing rate of absenteeism in schools.
He says parents withdrew their children from school to help them in farm work, following start of the rains, which has affected the learners’ performance.
Banakora adds that this harvesting season for the food crops has further worsened the situation,saying School attendance records have gone down, with many school going children heading to gardens and not schools.
He is urging parents to take their children back to school and employ farm workers to replace the labour gaps.
The probation made the appeal to the community during an interview with Paradigm FM at his office in Kagadi town council,on Tuesday evening.
Banakora further says many families always suffer from heightened domestic violence when they get money from harvesting agricultural output.
He urges couples to seek advice from their leaders or elders and always to respect each other to avoid violent actions because they mostly affect the children who most times drop out of schools while others run away from home and end up on streets getting involved in criminal activities.
