I’m not sure they have so much “choice” to complete their education in this country. Many come from one room homes without food on the table and/ or without space for older kids, forcing them out to make money however possible to have something to eat and / or a place to live. Others are forced out of education due to the need to care for younger siblings in broken family situations, or worse still have kids of their own to care for. Poverty is a cycle that can’t be fixed by simply offering free education... most hungry kids just don’t understand how learning a periodic table can help them, especially when the free university education that follows secondary is utterly inaccessible to most (cost of food, housing, transport etc not free)
For these kids understanding the problem of littering in what they perceive as some “cheto” neighborhood is probably the furthest thing from their minds.