In the mango, rose apple, and tamarind season in rural Satkhira, teenage boys disappear from classrooms and reappear on trees. This is not a poetic metaphor—it’s a survival strategy. During recent fieldwork for our study titled ‘Governance in transition: Scoping the landscape of secondary school management in Bangladesh’ supported by BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), in Kolia and Noapara villages of Tala upazila, Satkhira, we encountered numerous students who missed weeks of school to earn money during harvest seasons.
In the mango, rose apple, and tamarind season in rural Satkhira, teenage boys disappear from classrooms and reappear on trees. This is not a poetic metaphor—it’s a survival strategy. During recent fieldwork for our study titled ‘Governance in transition: Scoping the landscape of secondary school management in Bangladesh’ supported by BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), in Kolia and Noapara villages of Tala upazila, Satkhira, we encountered numerous students who missed weeks of school to earn money during harvest seasons.
