High school students ages sixteen to nineteen are able to start dropping out at sixteen, when in reality students shouldn’t be dropping out until they are seventeen or eight because the lack of job out for students without high school diplomas. Many kids not including myself screamed that the thing I’ve learned in school won’t help me in the real world. When I thought the career I would be going to after school is real estate. I would be working with number and measurements. Math skills I learn now will definitely be used later on in my career. “Dropping out at an early age is an alarm for a bad life.”
While other think that all 12 years of school aren’t important, or the things you learn now in life aren’t going to even be used in the real world. But that’s incorrect everything you learn from English, Math, and even Social Studies will be used just depending on what you choose as your careers you were looking into. Doing research I’ve read about students dropping out at the age sixteen and working fast food jobs until their …show more content…
Kentucky raised its dropout age from sixteen to eighteen, Maryland raised its dropout age from sixteen to seventeen. Would also like to raise it higher in 2017. I’ve read article and also been told by a few family members that some of their kids drop out of school and will be working in fast food for the rest of their lives. Cashiers make at least $15,500 a year without a high school diploma. That’s not enough to take care of yourself and a family. What would these teens/young adults be living like? Many articles talk about how these would be the ones who live with their parents. Buying a house is expensive especially up in the city, without a solid career how could you accomplish buying a house? Statistics show that students who don’t have high school diplomas are my likely to live in poverty, the poverty rate for a high school dropout id 30.8
While other think that all 12 years of school aren’t important, or the things you learn now in life aren’t going to even be used in the real world. But that’s incorrect everything you learn from English, Math, and even Social Studies will be used just depending on what you choose as your careers you were looking into. Doing research I’ve read about students dropping out at the age sixteen and working fast food jobs until their …show more content…
Kentucky raised its dropout age from sixteen to eighteen, Maryland raised its dropout age from sixteen to seventeen. Would also like to raise it higher in 2017. I’ve read article and also been told by a few family members that some of their kids drop out of school and will be working in fast food for the rest of their lives. Cashiers make at least $15,500 a year without a high school diploma. That’s not enough to take care of yourself and a family. What would these teens/young adults be living like? Many articles talk about how these would be the ones who live with their parents. Buying a house is expensive especially up in the city, without a solid career how could you accomplish buying a house? Statistics show that students who don’t have high school diplomas are my likely to live in poverty, the poverty rate for a high school dropout id 30.8