High School Students Drop Out Research Paper

The Dropout Rate is Our Problem The focus of high schools, communities and the government is becoming how to keep students from dropping out. First why the students are deciding to drop out needs to be examined and addressed. The student’s home life should be included when investigating why students leave high school before graduation. Economic status and race are very influential factors that can cause a student to leave school because lower economic status or minorities are more likely to drop out. Dropouts tend to live in environments that have violence, health or schooling issues. Education should be important to all students because education can lead to a better career in the future. Dropping out of high school has consequences that many students are not aware of, such as being denied for jobs, being pressured into joining gangs and sinking into depression. Instead of ensuring that students are aware of the risk, teachers and counselors do not intervene in every student’s educational journey but allow students to make bad decisions. …show more content…
A higher graduation rate would help the nation as a whole because dropouts earn $130,000 less than graduates (Balfanz, 1). High school graduates higher income results in paying higher taxes, therefore helping the United State’s economy. The Civic Marshall’s plan is to have the United States at a 90% graduation rate in the year 2020 by establishing benchmarks to assess progress and focusing the efforts of the United States on graduation rates (Balfanz 2). Schools making sure that students are reading on grade level and the students are not truant before the transitioning to high school can achieve the increase in the graduation rate. In high school, there should be systems of support for the incoming freshman to help with the change especially the students that were low performers in middle