conflict may also prevent families from allowing girls to attend school since travelling to a distant school during periods of insecurity is viewed as more dangerous for girls than for boys hence in some indigenous communities the levels of illiteracy among girls remain high as do their dropout and failure rates there are still residential schools in parts of englishspeaking africa the long distance between village communities and secondary schools often render those schools inaccessible to students including indigenous students which is why many students drop out of school after completing the primary level