Pakistan Association for Difficulties In Learning (PADIL) has expressed concerns over suicides committed by students who failed in the matriculation examinations, and said that slow learning was the main cause behind this trend. Chief Executive PADIL Ashba Kamran told agencies on Wednesday that suicide by five young students after failing their exams, despite repeated attempts exposes fault lines in our education system that is unable to support slow learners in our society.
She said the incidents of suicide were on the rise and this was the right time to draw the attention of parents, teachers, legislators and civil society towards the problem of learning difficulties like Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and Dyslexia among students. “Every third child in Pakistan is facing learning difficulties, leading to a high drop-out rate in schools,” she said, “no serious efforts have been made at the public or private level to deal with the problem, pushing more children to successive failures in the field of education.