Research Of The Drop-out Problem Of Rural Middle School Students From The Perspective Of Social Work

The problem of rural middle school students drop out of school is currently one of the key issues of common concern in China. The high rate of rural high school dropout not only is unfavorable to the development of education in China, but also will cause great waste of education resource. At the same time, it also can bring some problems affecting the stability of the society, and form a larger resistance in the process of China’s construction, which will brings a lot of harm to China’s economic and social development.While there is considerable quantitative research on this issue, no systematic effort has been made to assess the deeper reasons behind student decision-making through a mixed-methods approach. This article seeks to explore the prevalence, correlates and potential reasons for rural dropout throughout the secondary education process. It brings together results from eight large-scale survey studies including 24,931 rural secondary students across four provinces as well as analysis of extensive interviews with 52 students from these same study sites. The results show that cumulative dropout across all windows of secondary education may be as high as 63%. Dropout is significantly correlated with low academic performance, high opportunity cost, low socioeconomic status and poor mental health. A model is developed to suggest that rural dropout is primarily driven by two mechanisms:rational cost-benefit analysis or impulsive, stress-induced decision-making.Finally, this paper selected a typical school case in D county S province as an example. By using the professional cases work intervention method, it sets up a detailed service plan to make the dropout students return to campus. This paper also summed up the main reason of the current rural middle school students drop out of school, then put forward the solution to this problem from the aspect of social work, and provided the reference for carrying out social work on rural middle school students in the future.