Receiving a proper education in an urban school system has been a major problem over the years. Dropout rates in the urban school districts have almost doubled the dropout rate of those in suburban school districts. Where do these children turn to when they drop out of school? What is the government doing to help decrease the dropout rate? How do we get our children back in the classrooms and off of the streets? Why do some people agree that it is okay for a student to drop out of school? Who do we turn to for help? Let’s restore the quality of education. Every year about 1.2 million students drop out of school, which means 26 students drop of per second and 7,000 drop out per day. Out of all the drop outs African Americans as well as Latino
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Despite the negative attention that the Detroit public school districts have been getting in the past few years the dropout rate has decreased to an estimated 6.5 percent to a graduation rate of 71.05%. This shows that the urban school districts are determined to make a …show more content…
“ Don’t give up! There will be some moments when you don’t know how you are going to make it, you will get discouraged and want to walk away but don’t quit”. “The sky is the limit”. “High school dropouts are 72 percent more likely to be unemployed as compared to high school graduates ("Research”)”. One of every ten high males who drop out of high school end up in prison or in a juvenile detention center. One out of every four black males who drop out end up being locked behind bars (Dillon). The dropout rate of student is up, which mean that the prison rate is up as well. Each student that drops out and, end up behind bars, are costing us Americans our hard earned tax money. A 2007 study done by Princeton and City University shows those citizens as a whole could have saved $209,000 in prison for every high school dropout (Dillon). Young female drop outs are nine times more likely to be single parents (Dillon). With all of the negative statistics about high school drop outs, student should want to do well, but some just don’t have the motivation to do
Despite the negative attention that the Detroit public school districts have been getting in the past few years the dropout rate has decreased to an estimated 6.5 percent to a graduation rate of 71.05%. This shows that the urban school districts are determined to make a …show more content…
“ Don’t give up! There will be some moments when you don’t know how you are going to make it, you will get discouraged and want to walk away but don’t quit”. “The sky is the limit”. “High school dropouts are 72 percent more likely to be unemployed as compared to high school graduates ("Research”)”. One of every ten high males who drop out of high school end up in prison or in a juvenile detention center. One out of every four black males who drop out end up being locked behind bars (Dillon). The dropout rate of student is up, which mean that the prison rate is up as well. Each student that drops out and, end up behind bars, are costing us Americans our hard earned tax money. A 2007 study done by Princeton and City University shows those citizens as a whole could have saved $209,000 in prison for every high school dropout (Dillon). Young female drop outs are nine times more likely to be single parents (Dillon). With all of the negative statistics about high school drop outs, student should want to do well, but some just don’t have the motivation to do