The Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015 provide guideposts so that the
answers to these critical questions are a resounding “Yes!” Grounded in current research and
the real-life experiences of educational leaders, they articulate the leadership that our schools
need and our students deserve. They are student-centric, outlining foundational principles of
leadership to guide the practice of educational leaders so they can move the needle on student
learning and achieve more equitable outcomes. They’re designed to ensure that educational
leaders are ready to meet effectively the challenges and opportunities of the job today and in
the future as education, schools and society continue to transform.
children will be dependent on drugs, nicotine and, alcohol.
Besides, children will be facing many types of social consequences. According to Victoria Brown (Star Online, 2018), young brides are often isolated, with their freedom curtailed, and they may feel disempowered and deprived of their fundamental rights to health, education, and safety. They will not have the freedom and courage to mingle around like a normal teenager. Thus, they will eventually lose confidence in themselves and will not have the willpower or mindset to think and fight back for their rights. Hence, being socially and educationally lacking, the child bride is under an unpredictable and immeasurable amount of pressure.
Girls who marry are likely to have a high chance of splitting up and partition in some circumstances. Some studies have proven that when a girl marries before passing their puberty stage, they face challenges in attempting to hold the relationship and in focusing on the marriage. Young ladies disintegrate or invalidate their relationships because of the huge age difference between partners, abuse and physical maltreatment through spouses, and husbands’ over-dominant of power. Separation and partition can prompt bigger issues, as young moms experience the responsibility for childbearing and childrearing with the exception of monetary help from their families or society (Noor & Mohd, 2018, p.16).
Besides, while it is no longer clear if early marriage motives girls to drop out from school or vice versa, early marriage potentially stop a girl’s formal education (Noor & Mohd, 2018, p.15). When a girl gets married, she is often told to drop out of school. Girls tend to drop out of college during the preparatory time before or after the marriage. Her new role as a wife or mother frequently comes with the expectation that she will take care of the home, the young people and the prolonged family. It is also said that when a girl is out from the school, she becomes more vulnerable. Many females are not in school because it is inaccessible and expensive, and also due to the fact it is viewed as something that irrelevant to their lives. With few alternatives, mothers and fathers often see marriage as a nice choice for their daughter. Moreover, girls who have dropped out of school are likely will get married at the age of 18 compared to ladies with secondary o
