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This part discussed about cost sharing policy of secondary education and how
parents are involved. With increased poverty ratios among parents, most of them
failed to meet school costs required. Traditional culture, norms and taboos also
contributed too. However, this study intended to know Parents’ Response to Cost
Sharing in Public Secondary Education Tanzania.
The study guided by Economic and Classical Liberal theories. Economic theory
suggest costs of education to be shared by the government and beneficiaries whereas
Classical Liberal theory suggests equal opportunity of education. Mixed method
research approach that combines the collection and analysis of quantitative and
qualitative data used. Cross sectional and a case study research designs used to
collect data where stratified and purposive sampling used too. The DEO, WEOs,
Heads of schools, students and parents were the five categories from which the
sample drawn. Questionnaires and unstructured interviews were the means used to
gather information.
The findings revealed that parents response to cost sharing policy of public
secondary education depends on household level of income, awareness of parents
about the importance of education for their children as well as culture, traditional
norms and taboos. However the researcher invited other researchers to conduct
studies in order to know why traditional culture, norms and taboos that leads most
parents to have wrong attitudes of educating their children |
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