Dropout

High school dropouts are becoming more and more common each day. There are many reasons for why students in high school drop out. High school dropouts are mainly caused by upbringing and attitude, which has a negative effect on people’s lives. Some effects may be very crucial to your life and can be very important to how you live. Also, some people are more likely to drop out than others. It mostly depends on how you were raised up in your family and what you were taught while you were…

trouble with the law and they have higher unemployment rates. (steve s) A high school dropout earns about $200,000 less than someone who has graduated and a high school diploma, “A high school dropout makes $19,000 a year a high school graduate makes $51,000 a year, a college graduate will make one million more than a high school graduate.”(Janel davis) In two thousand and twelve the study found that high school dropouts made $11.75 per hour that’s four dollars and four cents less than high…

students, at age sixteen, are legally allowed to dropout. However, a few people argue that the age sixteen is too young for a student to dropout and dropping their education altogether. In this situation, everyone has their individual opinion on this topic. People believe it’s the parent’s and the child’s decision when the child stops attending school and stops with their education. Sixteen should not be the legal age to dropout. The legal age to dropout should be risen to the age of eighteen…

the highest graduation rates of any developed country, now ranks 22nd out of 27 developed countries.”1 2. “Almost 2,000 high schools across the U.S. graduate less than 60% of their students.”3 Significance: This is significant because high school dropouts are limiting themselves from potential success and opportunities in the future. Credibility: My family has always pushed me in my academic life. My father especially pushed me to excel at school, because he did not finish college and…

this the dropout rate decreased by 27% by the end of 2012. Not only did the regulations help decrease the amount of dropouts but it also increased the graduation rate. Because of this the U.S. has seen many improvements such as a lower unemployment rate.…

Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts.” 2006. The authors of this article surveyed high school dropouts as to their motives for dropping out, and the events that lead them to that decision. Backed by statistical analysis, there findings presented two types of high school dropouts. The first type said school was not challenging enough, and therefore they felt no inspiration or motivation towards their coursework. The second type consisted of dropouts that struggled to even pass. Among…

The leading stereotype of high school dropouts is that they are either pregnant, or dumb, but that is not always the case. Students often drop out of high school because they don't feel competent, or the have to work to support their families. Many students feel as if they don't have the ability to pass their classes. My school principal, Dr. Weatherly, always says “Say you can, or say you can’t, you will always be correct , so when a student doesn’t think she/he can pass, she/he doesn’t try,…

The national average for high school dropouts has declined over the past decade. Could you imagine walking into class and not seeing your classmates? Well in today’s society this is common across the United States. According to dosomething.org, The dropout rate has fallen 3% from 1990 to 2010 (12.1% to 7.4%), furthermore “Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds or 7,000 a day.” Dropping out of high school is a…

1 / 5 Question: How does race affect the rates of high school dropouts in the U.S.? Every 26 seconds a student in the United States drops out of high school. That is about two dropouts every minute and over 3,300 dropouts every day. Of those 3,300 drop-outs, the majority will be of Hispanic descent, African Americans come in second, and whites are last. There are many individual factors that contribute to each race's dropout statistics. These factors boil down to the cultural differences that…

Out and Signing Up Should high school dropouts be able to get away with leaving school unfinished, missing out on very important years of their young lives? They can, but they should help out their country in another way, since academics didn’t work out for them. Dropouts should be required to join the U.S military, in hopes that they shape-up, and act like a soldier. Joining the military is the only reason to drop out of school. A lot of kids HAVE to dropout of high school, to support their…