THE LEVEL OF AWARENESSOF RE–ENTRY POLICY OF TEENAGE MOTHERS IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA

ABSTRACT: Re-entry to school policy guidelines advocated that girls who drop out of school due to pregnancy be readmitted after giving birth and that awareness on the same must be intensified so that more people know about it so as to enhance its implementability. However low level of awareness about re entry policy especially among parents and other community members hinders its implementation and in an effort to reduce the socio- economic impact of this phenomenon in young women who find themselves in this predicament, the Kenyan government introduced the re-entry policy that made it possible for such girls to reenter school and start their education from where they stopped prior to pregnancy. It is in the light of this that, the study sought to assess the level of awareness re–entry policy in public secondary schools and was guided by the social integration theory on student retention in schools.