What is school desertion? Dropout is a concept used to refer to students who drop out of school and fall outside the education system. Specialists from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have identified poverty (with children who are malnourished or have to go out to work), exclusion and schools' poor capacity to provide containment as the main causes of school drop-out. Another cause that can be mentioned, especially in rural or remote areas of large cities, is distance. Children often have to travel several kilometres to reach the school, which makes it difficult for them to attend classes regularly. It is the family that has a key role to play in making a school-age child drop out. The fact that he stops attending classes is often related to the characteristics of his environment. Thus, when the child has scarce economic resources, does not have a fixed residence and the parents do not have academic training, factors are given so that the child does not att