Law No. 139 of 1981, regulating education affairs, emphasized the importance of the child’s right to obtain basic education, and identified several pillars that the student must obtain during the establishment stage. It also discussed the issue of dropping out of education, which occurs in many villages and governorates, and setting fines. to reduce them.
Article 21 of the law stipulates these measures to address the phenomenon of dropping out of education:
1. Warning the child’s father or guardian if he is absent from school without an acceptable excuse for ten consecutive or separate days.
2. If the guardian does not receive the warning, it shall be handed over to the mayor, police station, station, or department to be handed over to the child’s father or guardian.
3. A fine of 10 pounds as a penalty for the child’s father or guardian if the child fails to attend or stops without an acceptable excuse from attending school within a week.
4. When the violation is repeated, the penalty shall be multiplied by the continued failure of the child to attend or his recurrence of default without an acceptable excuse after warning his father or guardian.