Dropout

1.) Some interesting facts I learned about Kanye West are that was a college dropout, Kanye dropped out because he wished to pursue his music career. This greatly disappointed his mother who was a professor at the college Kanye attended. This action inspired Kanye’s first album to be called “College Dropout”. Kanye also studied abroad in China when her mother and him travelled to China so she could discover new cultures and ideas and also because his mom had a temporary job at a university there…

Leonhardt renames dropouts as nongraduates giving a neutral look on college students dropping out. In this article he gives various financial and social reasons on why students may leave school. He focus mainly on the financial struggles that college students have. These…

chance of getting a well-paid job. Also, high school dropouts are viewed by society as less than high school graduates. After high school when there is a reunion a student who didn’t graduate might feel embarrassed and not show up. Students who don’t complete high school will have a hard time getting a good job, less likely to succeed in life, and will have to complete high school later on before furthering their education. High school dropouts have a hard time getting good jobs. Most companies…

Dropping out of high school is not necessarily a problem solver. Making the choice to dropout may release a small amount of stress, yet also ending many opportunities to become prosperous. It would not be enjoyable living in poverty or at least close to it.Dropping out can cause many problems physically and emotionally down the road. It could make life more complicated in multiple ways. Although high school students drop out by choice, high schoolers should have to stay in school. Americans…

elderly. If we reduced, then amount of high school dropout rates the country would benefit from an additional 45 billion in revenue. Poor health outcomes due to low income and job insecurity, less likely to receive job-based health insurance. Without health insurance students may not receive crucial preventive health care. Also the increased likelihood of legal trouble of poverty, and can lead to substance abuse. It is said high school dropouts that turn to crime and drugs Cost the country…

our country. It’s time for all of us to come together – parents and students, principals and teachers, business leaders and elected officials – to end America’s dropout crisis.” Many education officials in the government support the fact that students with a high school diploma have a future with more opportunities than high school dropouts. Students should be required to stay in school until they are eighteen years of age. Staying in school leads to an increase in graduation rates and higher…

Pearl Arredendo, and Sir Ken Robinson. Each of these speakers were given an opportunity to provide their own individual response to this question as well as providing details on what they have done as educators in order to combat the issue of large dropout rates in high schools. There were a variety of different answers to this dilemma. For example Mrs. Rita Pierson believed that…

In the United States millions of students dropout of school each year. Currently the law states that students can legally drop out of school at age sixteen. The idea of lowering the age to fourteen is ridiculous, even allowing students to legally drop out at the age now is not wise and borders on child abuse. Dropping out of school at sixteen years old, let alone fourteen will impact the student for life. Young people are known to make hasty decisions without much thought to the outcome of their…

drop out before the age of 16. Students should not be able to drop out before the age of 16. Four sources that help support this claim is a letter, a data analysis, Paul Morgan Talks With Missy Remiss on WSCH, and President Pushes States to Raise Dropout Age. Students should not drop out before the age of 16. The graduation rate increases when students do not drop out. When students do not drop out it has a positive effect on them. When students drop out their driverś license is…

No Pass No Drive In the U.S. there is a twenty five percent high school dropout rate. In over 27 states there is some law that revokes a student's driver's license if they are absent to much or are failing to many classes. In certain counties in Kentucky this law lowered the dropout rate when this law was in place. We should use this law to lower the high school dropout rate in California and help motivate students to get to class and do there best. One reason we should use this law is so…