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College Students Drop Out Of School Every Year

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David Brown 6/6/2016 Health Final - Decision 1-2 Mrs. Verstraete 1.1 million American students drop out of school every year (TBF, 2012). After World War II, the United States had the #1 high school graduation rate in the world. Today, we have dropped to # 22 among 27 industrialized nations (TBF, 2012). These astronomically large numbers are why I chose this topic. Public schooling is in crisis, and more and more people are opting to go to private schools or be homeschooled. Even through all of this, there are many glimpses of hope. Many public schools are still very good, and competitive towards private schools. On the flip side, other public schools, namely in big cities, are also colossally behind the suburban schools that are competitively good. Luckily, I live in Penfield, where we have one of the suburban schools, but what if I didn’t? That’s the reason I choose this topic (I have a bit of a habit of overanalyzing things, so the “what-if” factor really intrigued me). With that out of the way, here is one of the most important decisions I will ever make: what I will do about education. In big cities that lack good public high-schooling, there are actually good opportunities for Pre-Kers. More than half of students in New York City attend Pre-K (Cities Lead the Charge, 2013) which is more than likely the result of recent legislation opening new Pre-K opportunities. Parents in a big city who don’t enroll their kids in Pre-K are half as likely to finish schooling (Cities

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