Dropout of school in mountains The right to education is an important part of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child because it brings awareness, skills, and mental and social development to the individual. In addition to depriving the child of future life skills, dropping out of school in the long run increases social harm and anomalies. The term school dropout is used for the age group between 6 and 17 years of age who have either never gone to school or have been forced to drop out of school after a few years. In mountainous and nomadic areas of northern Khuzestan province (Indika and Lali counties), dropouts are due to lack of schools and the dispersal of villages, difficult mountain roads, nomadic migration, early marriage and family prejudices.