High School Should Be Mandatory

Every year, 15 million students enter high school. Of those students, more than 1.3 million will drop out before graduation. This can be due to a number of factors: struggles in their home or personal life, disinterest in or misunderstanding the subject matter, an inability to complete the assignments, or a combination of these. On top of these students dropping out, 25% of students staying in school fail to graduate on time, if at all. Altogether, our education system is failing to educate and support 5 million high school students each year. Although completely preventing students from dropping out or failing may be unrealistic, we can reduce the number significantly. Three changes that we need to see in our school system are the removal of standardized tests, the addition of life skills courses, and the inclusion of mental health information and support. These modifications would

In the United States, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school every year. This is about one student every 26 seconds or 7,000 students a day. These alarming statistics are unfortunately a reality. Many of these kids face severe consequences throughout their life because of this one bad decision. These challenges could be avoided if students are required to graduate and receive their diploma. Students should be required to stay in school until the age of 18 to protect their well-being, ensure they won’t make a decision that they will likely regret, and give them more opportunities in their adulthood.

The rate of suicide, the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally, increases each year. “More adolescents die each year from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined” (Preventing Teen Suicide, 2016, p.2). These facts show suicide is a serious problem among teens. Last year, teen suicide became the second leading cause of death in the United States confirming the significant increase in teen suicides.

According to Fowler, Crosby, Parks, and Ivey (2013), suicide and nonfatal suicidal ideations are significant public health concerns for adolescents and young adults. While the onset of suicidal behaviors is observed as young as six years of age, rates of death and nonfatal injury resulting from suicidal behavior are moderately low until 15 years of age (Fowler et al., 2013). According to Fowler et al (2013), the most current available statistics in the United States (U. S.) reported suicide as the third leading cause of death among youth aged 10-14 and 15-19 years, and it was the second leading cause of death among persons aged 20-24 years.

Learning and graduating should be a top priority for high school students. In some countries, children do not even have the chance to learn. In fact, according to BBC, there are about 57 million children, in the world today, who do not have a school to go to. The students that are able to attend school should be grateful that they live in such a place. In addition, the standard school subjects can teach much more than the actual subject. For instance, some common reads that high schoolers in the United States read are Shakespeare’s plays and those plays have many life

Each year, 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. According to Dropoutprevention.org teenagers leave school because they feel they cannot complete course requirements, cannot keep up with school assignments or feel they do not connect with their teachers. When the young adults stop their education, they no longer have positive examples to follow and lose a plan for their life in the future. Teens are not yet experienced enough to make these types of life changing decisions. It is important for the government to set regulations for them to follow so they have a better opportunity of success later in life. Students should be required to stay in school until they are eighteen years old because high school teaches them life skills and their diploma qualify

As one can see in the past staying in school was mandatory and people were looked down if one did not finish school. Now in days’ students are quick to drop out and more parents are allowing it to happen. The rate of students who attend school and drop- out is tremendously high. As a student who thought about dropping out due to many encounters in life, but chose to stay in school and get an education changed who I am today. After all, each individual has a different perspective of whether high school should be mandatory both know it can only better one self. Attending high school will have challenges along with, but make it worth going for.

Imagine being a fourteen-year-old teen barely hitting puberty, unable to operate a moving vehicle, probably have not even received a first kiss and already attending college. Would the feeling be of excitement to have the ability of freedom and decision making? Or would it be one of the worst nightmares of starting a stressful, full of responsibilities, and working hard adult life at a young age? Many wonder what would it be like if high school never existed. There is the open imagination of teens having a degree and a well-paying job before turning twenty. But there is also the thought of society experiencing an economic crisis for a low demand for low-paying jobs that do not require a college degree. Where ever our imagination takes us, it is best that high school

In the United States of America there are more than 1.3 million students to drop out of high school every year. 16- to 24-year old boys made up nearly 60% of these dropouts in 2010. That’s more than 1.8 million students. As heard Before kids who don’t read proficiently by 4th grade are 4 times more likelier to drop out of school other than the average student who reads books for pleasure not school. Doing this improves literacy rates and prevents dropouts. Some students choose to go down the wrong path. They get involved with gangs, drugs, alcohol, get pregnant and commit crimes. Many have a poor school attitude and some are bored by school. Many are disconnected to their families and they do not see the reasons they need to go to school.

Having a high school education is a great thing to have. You have the oppotunity to receive one,

The graph shows suicide in teens has drastically increased from its low in 2006 at 1,240 to its high in 2014 at 1668. There are many reasons for this incline one of the most prominent being the pressure to get good grades. Although many teens have good grades they still fret over whether or not

Some people argue that if a student wants to drop out, it is their personal choice. They choose to hurt their educational life, therefore society as a whole should not waste their time and energy attempting to help and prevent dropouts. Although sure enough, the people can not put an absolute end to high school dropouts but they should help who they can not. Another reason it is important to help dropouts is because high school dropouts do not only affect themselves, but they affect the rest of the country as well (Williams 14). A specific region or areas drop out rates play a role on the area’s overall prosperity, for areas with lower dropout rates have less criminal activity (Oreopoulos). By putting in effort to prevent students from dropping out an individual is helping his or her neighbours. It is also said that high school dropouts cause a “loss of national income and

Today’s Government has produced a focus on education with its importance for one to be successful through passing laws, having numerous debates, and speaking out on the crucial subject. Throughout these actions, a number of responses have poured out from all regions across the nation. Dropping out is a way to escape a place associating social outcast, jocks and nerds together to form a student body that sometimes will oppress one another. Every twenty-six seconds a graduating class decreases by one, creating an average graduation rate of 80%. The effects of this create problems that harm people both economically and socially. Over a lifetime one who does not graduate high school earns $200,000 less than a person would if they did go on to get their diploma, including not having a chance of obtaining the 90% of jobs that are now made unavailable for the dropout. Socially, nearly 75% of dropouts are connected to crimes in the United States while 30% of girls blame pregnancy as the cause of their leaving of education. Overall this is a cause that if fixed can solve many problems through law and economics that will produce a stronger government base. The continuous rate of high school dropouts brings a negative impact through social, economical, and mental problems that creates a downfall in the landscape of society.

According to statistics provided by the CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide ranks the second leading cause of death for ages 10-24. So we’re talking about the second leading cause of death from students entering middle school up until college. Looking roughly at the same age range, The U.S. department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (2015) says in 2015, about 21 percent of students ages 12-18 reported

Today’s Government has produced a focus on education with its importance for one to be successful through passing laws, having numerous debates, and speaking out on the crucial subject. Throughout these actions, a number of responses have poured out from all regions across the nation. Dropping out is a way to escape a place associating social outcast, jocks and nerds together to form a student body that sometimes will oppress one another. Every twenty-six seconds a graduating class decreases by one, creating an average graduation rate of 80%. The effects of this create problems that harm people both economically and socially. Over a lifetime one who does not graduate high school earns $200,000 less than a person would if they did go on to get their diploma, including not having a chance of obtaining the 90% of jobs that are now made unavailable for the dropout. Socially, nearly 75% of dropouts are connected to crimes in the United States while 30% of girls blame pregnancy as the cause of their leaving of education. Overall this is a cause that if fixed can solve many problems through law and economics that will produce a stronger government base. The continuous rate of high school dropouts brings a negative impact through social, economical, and mental problems that creates a downfall in the landscape of society.