The College Dropout

families struggling with the higher education system. There is a large gap between the upper and lower classes of America regarding who is getting into college and actually graduating from these institutions. This is exactly what authors Gregory Mantsios and David Leonhardt are describing in their articles Class in America and The College Dropout Boom. Upper class Americans have far more opportunities and advantages in higher education compared to the lower class in the United States…

The documentary “Living On One Dollar” truly opened my eyes to how different life is outside of the United States. Chris and Zach, two close friends studying international development in college, decided that textbooks were not enough to learn from. They needed to travel and gain the real-life experience reading could not provide. Chris and Zach decided they would take off to Guatemala for a 56-day trip living on only $1.00 per day. In Guatemala, they explained, citizens are not always confident…

on the effects of divorce on children. Through these studies, scientists have synthesized and given the consequences that children suffered because of the tragedy of divorce. Increasing dropout can also come into play. Research in 1994 by McLanahan, Harvard University Press showed that “the high school dropout rate of children of divorced parents is roughly two times higher than that of children of which the parents did not divorce”. If a child is lucky not to change school and get to know…

In todays’ society, a big part of arguments and conflicts have revolved around racism. Unless a person has gone to a high school or a University where the issue of racial privileges have been an issue, generally people tend to have their first encounter with the issue online. Misinterpretations of this discussion can often interfere with a persons view on this topic. Gwendolyn Brooks is a great American poet that portrays the lives of many Southern Chicago African Americans. I chose one of her…

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…

surrendering to a line of hard work. “When students do not have positive relationships with other students and staff members, they experience a lack of social capital, which is not only inversely linked to academic achievement but is directly related to dropout rates” (Roybal, Thornton, Usinger 478). There must be a positive campus environment and a valuable participation from both ends of the spectrum in order to maintain a high rate of students to include another year before quitting. Having…

I have always lived my life to the point where I could never be described with the words ‘midlife crisis’. I drove my first car at the age of two, trapezed at the age of seven, zip-lined at nine, and now at 18, I can say I’ve skydived. As cliché as it sounds, making the most out of life is ask I’ve really asked myself to do. Senior year was coming into a close, and me, being myself could not possibly let senior year pass me by as a simple toss of an overpriced cap and a few soppy hugs. At the…

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…

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…

completing high school is an irrelevant task, yet that line of thinking is false and has destroyed lives. The best option for students in this day and age is to complete all of their education in order to fully experience life. The economic issues a dropout will face because of their incomplete education outweighs any sort of positive outcome dropping out may…