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There are many factors that contribute to a child’s lack of access and attendance during primary education. Among them are location, climate, cost, gender, and family issues. School fees are a common factor prohibiting children from attending school. In schools with low resources, there is no choice but to require fees for matriculation, cost of books and uniforms. For families living in poverty, it is not reasonable to pay money to send their children to school when they are struggling to even feed them every day. Attendance is another crucial issue in achieving universal primary education, for even if a child has access to schooling, they will not reap the full benefits of education if they are not attending school on a regular basis. The Millennium Development Goals Task Force on Education suggests that in order to provide incentives for children to consistently attend school and take their education seriously, a government should improve their post-primary education option. For many parents in developing countries “the economic benefits of primary schooling alone are not high enough to offset the opportunity cost of attending.”