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Vol. 7, No. 1; 2021 

ISSN 2576-103X   E-ISSN 2576-1048 

Published by CRIBFB, USA 

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FACTORS INFLUENCING PARENTS' CHOICES ABOUT 

ENROLLING THEIR CHILDREN’S IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS (A 

CASE STUDY IN JALALABAD CITY) 

 
Qudratullah Nazari 

 Senior Teaching Assistant  

Pedagogy Department 

 Faculty of Education 

Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan 

E-mail: qudrat_n231@yahoo.com 

 

Enayatullah Dadman 

Joiner Teaching Assistant  

History Department, Faculty of Education  

Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan 

E-mail: dadmanenayat@gmail.com  

 

 

ABSTRACT 

The sight of this research paper was to examine the key components of impacting parent’s choice 

select privet schools for enrollment of their children’s, in Jalalabad city therefore this research 

paper was designed to find out the most important factors in the mention topic, otherwise for the 

collecting of data used survey method and the instrument of the data was interview with parents 

who choose privet schools for their children’s education level, the present study find out three 

most important factors which are security threats, digital education system, and teachers hiring, 

the result clearly indicate that privet schools are better for their children’s according to security 

sects, education level and teachers quality that are hire by education services providers, the 

findings also show that parents got great feedback from privet school services and they were 

satisfied from school administrations and schools staff, it is sagest for further researches that many 

more of factors will consider in this section.          

    

Keywords: Digital Education, Factors, Influencing, Teachers Hiring, Security Threats. 

 

INTRODUCTION 

Enrolment trend in government schools is declining continuously year wise. And parents are 

preferring private schools for the education of their children’s. Guardians are 

the essential caregivers who are mindful and hold a noteworthy part in their children’s prosperity 

(Hamid et al., 2019). Variables impacting parents’ choice on preschool arrangement related to 

parents’ inclinations, fulfillment and inclusion in social organize were evoked (Hamid et al., 2019). 

Quality instruction arrangement is the most figure which draws in guardians to send their children 

to favored schools (Msendekwa & Lubuva, 2019). The development of technology, particularly 

information technology brings a real impact on various aspects of life including children's 

education (Hidayati, 2020). Education for children is one of the foremost concerning issues within 

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the society particularly among the guardians (Kampanatsanyakorn, 2020). Guardians are willing 

to spend a part of cash each year to contribute in their children’s education at the cost of their 

family budget. There are parcels of components affecting guardians amid the choice making 

prepare of school selection. Education may be a service advertised by many providers. There's a 

global development of privatization of education service which has presented a modern challenge 

for parents and students.  

          A large body of this research paper is conducted to investigate the parent’s choices for 

enrollment of their children’s in private schools, in addition there are lots of private schools in 

Jalalabad city, they provide may more educational services, but these educational services are in 

competitive based, within these Private school providers try to get parents' attention. Normally 

they worked under the supervision of ministry of education in Afghanistan. Each year, many of 

private schools in Afghanistan open their entryways for parents and children who are viewed as 

client, in Jalalabad city there's no question that parents choose what is best, within their financial 

implies, for their children. Parents send their children to private schools to have better education 

with better educational ethics.  

         This research paper will consider parent’s choices for enrollment of their children’s in private 

schools within this research paper will be find out the key elements Influencing Parents’ Choices 

about enrolling their children’s in Private Schools. 

 

REVIEW OF LITERATURE 

Based on elements Influencing Parents’ Choices Choosing Private Schools research in Malaysia 

there are many factors for parents to enroll their children’s in privet schools, finding of this 

research shown that parents emphasizing on the importance of privet schools, the academic 

performance of privet schools, quality of teachers and environment of the schools (Yaacob et al., 

2014). An assessment of factors influencing parents’ decision making when choosing a private 

school for their children a case study of Selangor, Malaysia, finding of this research shown that 

parents income level is big potential for choosing privet schools (Yaacob et al., 2014). Factors 

influencing parents’ decision in selecting private schools in Chittagong city, Bangladesh, the 

purpose of this research is to examine the factors influencing the parents’ decision in selecting 

private schools in Chittagong city, Bangladesh. Factors finding in this research are schools 

popularity, school quality, future option, parents’ income level and parents’ educational level 

(Suppramaniam et al., 2019). Factors Influencing Parents’ Selection of Schools for Children with 

Disabilities, according to findings of this research the factors when choosing schools, including 

the availability of special education programs, distance of the school, social continuities, class size, 

teachers’ characteristics, parent-teacher communication, beliefs about disability, and the children's 

well-being. Socioeconomic status and parents’ areas of residence had a mixed influence on the 

decision-making process (Mawene & Bal, 2018). Elements Impacting Parents’ Choices on 

choosing an Islamic Essential School in Bandung Indonesia, finding of this research includes that 

86.67% of parents tend to choose Islamic-based school. Within this, the schools must also be 

supported by professional educators, produce religious and outstanding graduates, provide not only 

good environment and quality, but also adequate information technology, along with complete 

facilities and effective learning time, with these conditions it must that the graduates will be 

excellent in ethics, morality and religiosity (Hidayati, 2020). Due to findings of a study on the 

factors influencing parent’s decision in choosing private schools in Selangor, it was found that 

parents expected school’s syllabus, school’s environment, school performances, teacher’s quality, 

location, distance, social background and income level are main points for their children’s to enroll 



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in privet schools (Yaacob et al., 2015).  Perceived school characteristics, quality of education 

physical environment and extracurricular activities are the key points and findings of a research, 

why do Parents Choose to Send Their Children to Private Schools? (Davis, 2011). Parents and 

guardians send their children to Pre-primary schools due to different reasons. Some send children 

to a certain school because of social, physical and psychological issues. Some parents send their 

children to preprimary believing that they build good foundation for the child’s academic future 

(Adzima, 2014). Factors parents consider in selecting pre-primary schools for their children, 

findings revealed that parents consider four major factors namely academic quality, affordability 

of school fees, language of instruction and class size in school selection (Msendekwa & Lubuva, 

2019). Certain demographic are more accepting to some attribute and limitation than others. 

Factors that influence Thai parents in choosing preschool program. Guardians have a noteworthy 

impact on their children’s improvement and future accomplishment. It is critical for guardians to 

create the proper choice with respect to their children’s instruction particularly preschool since 

amid this age child create more quickly and learn faster than at any other time in their life 

(UNICEF, 2010). program, area, school expenses, teachers’ qualities and school 

environment impact on the parents’ choice and gave great criticism and were fulfilled with the 

preschool organization are most important in a research on factors element affecting Parents’ 

Choice of Preschool Instruction in Malaysia (Taha, 2019). Perceived behavioral control is the main 

influence factor for Chinese parents' to enroll their children’s in primary schools Sarawak, 

Malaysia (Lee et al., 2017). Parents preferred single-sex education. Also preferred schools with 

qualified teachers, excellent academic record, and adequate support services are parents’ choice of 

a particular senior high school in Ghana (Amonoo, 2014). Factors Affecting Parents’ Inclination 

towards Private School System in Pakistan based on this research Parents think that quality of 

education in private schools is better than government schools, provide safe environment in school 

to children, children are safer in private school due to proper security, private schools provide 

quality environment to students in school premises that ultimately impacts the quality education 

of learners, teaching procedures, assessment of students, and teacher learner interaction is better 

handled in private schools, teachers in private school work with dedication and teachers  take job 

stress keeping in mind the reality that their job cannot continue unless showing good performance 

to employer (Akhter, 2017).  

METHOD 

The scope of this research paper is to have farther understanding about parents’ decisions for 

choosing private school learning establish on Afghan heritage learning system in Jalalabad city, 

then revising sampling techniques used random survey method for collecting true data, it was 

establish on research decision which accepted that the chosen overview have the capacity to 

prepare the desired information, in expansion a collection of collected overviews incorporate 

guardians who chosen private schools for enrollment of their children’s in Jalalabad city, this 

method is more suitable for collecting wide range of true data and discussion was the information 

collection instrument and the information was analyze theoretically.    

      

RESULTS 

Parents decisions choosing private schools for enrolling their children’s will have based on 

challenging limitation in education system furthermore security threats are the key factors that 

parents make decision choose private schools, anyway there are more factors influencing parents 

make decision for their children’s education.  

 



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Security Threats 
One of the most important factor that parents make decision to enroll their children’s in private 

schools was security threats, parents emphasized that Our country Afghanistan is a war-torn 

country and the public education system is in a more serious crisis at the current time within this 

security threats are challenging at the educational level, Private schools in Jalalabad are equipped 

with transportation system and parents don’t need pickup their children’s every morning and 

evening. The finding of this factor is presented as in figure 1.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 1. Show the range of security threats factor. 

 

Figure 1. Show that the main security threats are escape the children’s, traffic accident and 

warn to the children’s in these factors 61.5 % are escaping events, 31% are traffic accident events 

and 42.3 are the warn events. According to these conditions parents make decision to enroll their 

children’s in private schools.   

 

Digital Education System  

According to parent’s views most of privet schools in Jalalabad city provide digital education 

system it means the school classes are equipped on security cameras, teaching and learning process 

are by projectors, digital library, internet access, computer labs, conference halls and digital 

attendance. These factor are presented on figure 2. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Figure 2. Shown the range of digital education system factors 

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Based on view of figure 2, factors that parents make decision to enroll their children’s in 

private schools are security camera, projectors, digital library, internet accesses, computer lab, 

conference hall and digital attendance. 

 

Professional Teachers  

Another factor that parents influence to send their children’s to private schools was the hiring of 

professional teachers, according to parents emphasizes many of them are most agree that private 

schools in Jalalabad city have professional teachers. Parent’s satisfactions are presented in chat 3.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 3. Shown the satisfactions of parents with hiring of professional teachers in privet schools. 

 

DISCUSSION 

A large body of this research paper examine factors influencing parents’ decision choosing. Private 

Schools for enrollment of their children’s, Parents in this study believed that factors influence them 

and make decision to choose privet schools are security threats, digital education system and hiring 

professional teachers these the are main factors for engaging their children’s education level, 

according to literature review of this research paper findings of most research are academic 

performance, school environment, schools fee level, teaching procedure, students assessment, 

schools facilities and schools future academic  programs. Otherwise the most important things that 

parents were agree with that was the children’s security.    

 

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