Girls stay in school longer than boys because they study harder, longer and frequently. Boys tend to lose focus quickly and they spend a lot of time with electronic gadgets or playing games outside or on their phones. Boys tend to have more distractions as girls do, and I will go into more detail in the body of this paper on the distractions. The Government shouldn’t allow children to drop out of school, because they are allowing kids to become failures in life. Everybody should get at least twelve years of school education. When children dropout of school, they go on to earn less money and would need more assistance and help than a child that has graduated from high school. According the Huffington Post, dropouts cost tax payers between $320 to $350 billion dollars a year in lost wages and they are not eligible for 90% of the jobs in our economy. No matter if you are a boy or a girl, if you don’t graduate it is possible that a high school dropout will earn less than a high school graduate. The graduation rate for girls is a lot higher than the boys. When I read information on http://www.ohiohighschools.org/custom3.php it stated that “only 7 in 10 Ohio school students graduate with a diploma”. This is not only a problem here in Ohio, this is a worldwide problem. According to a school psychologist by the name of Dr. Michael Thompson he stated that “Girls outperform boys in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college, and graduate school,” who writes about the academic problems of boys in his book, "Raising Cain." He says that after decades of special attention, girls are soaring, while boys are sluggish. Boys give up more than girls do and they drop out of school. Getting an education for boys is much harder than it is for girls. Girls study way more than boys. The percentage of girls in The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is 48.2%. There are more girls than boys and their percentage would be 51.8% and this is according to clevelandmetroschools.org. That is about 1,486 students in total. This district as a whole is 82 square miles. According to a new study from the Manhattan Institute, it found that not only are girls in the nation’s 100 largest school districts graduating at a 72 percent rate versus 65 percent for their male counterparts, but that the gender gap is even wider among minority students. (http://www.mtv.com/news/1529015/girls-schooling-boys-when-it-comes-to-high-school-graduation/ ) Some high school dropouts are dangerous than a high school graduate. …show more content…
When you drop out of school you are more likely to get a less paying job and the earning potential will be very limited for someone without a diploma. People without diplomas are more likely to commit crimes in order to earn money; they will steal from people instead of trying to work for the money. Graduates go on to college to get degrees, which will put them in a better place than someone who decided not to graduate high school and go on to college. Having a degree puts you in a better position to earn a higher wage, you gain experience, can get a skill or a trade instead of someone who didn’t graduate who has to work at maybe McDonalds or Burger King making minimum wage until they maybe get their GED and then sometimes your wage isn’t much higher with a GED. Students whether they are a boy or girl should stay in school and focus on graduating and getting their diploma and possibly go on to college and earn a degree. Some high schools offer classes that you can major in such as hair, nursing, cooking,