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School Dropouts
"Dropping out
means leaving a group for either practical reasons,
necessities or disillusionment with the system from
which the individual in question leaves. Most
commonly, dropping out refers to a student
quitting school before he or she graduates. It
cannot always be ascertained that a student has
dropped out, as he or she may stop attending without
terminating enrollment. It is estimated 1.2 million
students annually dropout of high school in the
United States, where high school graduation rates
rank 19th in the world. Reasons are varied and may
include: to find work, avoid bullying,
family emergency, poor grades, depression, unexpected pregnancy,
bad environment, lack of freedom, and boredom from
lack of lessons relevant to the world of work.
The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School
Dropouts
by Civic Enterprises explores reasons students leave
school without graduating. The consequences of
dropping out of school can have long-term economic
and social repercussions. Students who drop out of
school in the United States are more likely to be
unemployed, homeless, receiving welfare and
incarcerated. A four-year study in San Francisco
found that 94 percent of young were high school
dropouts." Source:Wikipedia
Four out of
every 10 young adults (ages 16 - 24) lacking
a high school diploma received some type of
government assistance in 2001. /strong>
A dropout is
more than eight times as likely to be in
jail or prison as a person with at least a
high school diploma.
Studies show
that the lifetime cost to the nation for
each youth who drops out of school and later
moves into a life of crime and drugs ranges
from $1.7 to $2.3 million.
Dropouts
earn $9,200 less per year than high school
graduates and more than $1 million less over
a lifetime than college graduates.
The
government would reap $45 billion in extra
tax revenues and reduced costs in public
health, crime, and welfare payments if the
number of high school dropouts among 20-year
olds in the U.S. today, which numbers more
than 700,000 individuals, were cut in half. Read more:
http://www.super-solutions.com/Highdropoutratesareasilentepidemic.asp#ixzz1dAYQ08W0 Under
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