ABSTRACT

This research is about the effect of absenteeism on academic performance. It was guided by three objectives; To find the attitudes towards Budondo Sub-county schools in Jinja Uganda. To find out the methods used for the retention of Secondary school’s learners. To identify the role of teachers in children’s performance in Bundondo Schools. Purposive and stratified sampling was used to select a population of 40 respondents to represent a population of Matende primary school.