SHIFTING TRENDS IN ENROLLMENT FROM PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN ELEMENTARY LEVEL: A SURVEY ON PARENTAL ATTITUDE

Education is the backbone of the country, that’s why our constitution has provide the rights of free and compulsory elementary education for all. The present study has aimed to explore the parental attitude towards shifting from government schools to private schools in elementary level education. In this study, descriptive survey method is used to assess the parental attitude towards shifting their children from government schools to private schools for elementary education. In this study self-constructed questionnaire has been used for collecting data among 200 parents of elementary level students. The objectives of this study are to meticulously assess the attitude of rural, urban and APL, BPL parents of elementary level students. In this study data analysis has been done by using statistical techniques like ‘Mean’, ‘Standard Deviation’ and ‘t-Test’. The major findings of this study pointed out the immense impacts of parental growing trends of shifting from government schools to private schools for enrolling their children in elementary schools.