Change. Good or bad, effective or null, there will always be change. While change has the potential to amazing things, it also has the ability to turn things for the worse. A reduction in the age requirement for a student to drop out, for example. A change such as this would have an incredible potential to worsen the situation. There are pros and cons to every decision, regardless of the kind it is. However, in this case, the cons greatly outweigh the pros, enough so that one should tread carefully when coming to a decision.
One of the many bad consequences that would occur should the dropout age be reduced is regret. Many students will drop out and realize how much of a mistake it was later in life, and feel that they should have let themselves be educated more. This is only a minor consequence, however, worth mentioning. It is also good to mention the effect it would have on our nation's overall education level. It's very possible that it would be greatly reduced. At age fourteen, the body and mind are still growing and adapting to the ever-changing world. The world in which we live today changes on a daily basis, and it is hard to become accustomed to it when your own body is doing the exact same thing. Many fourteen year olds don't even think about their future; it's likely they wouldn't think very deeply on the matter of whether or not they should drop out. A sixteen year old has had time to adjust to the world's constantly changing patterns, and has lived long enough
The function of the education system is to improve students education and prepare them for the real world. Students within that system should receive an “A” when they have mastered the information they are being taught. However, grades no longer accurately reflect how much students have learned. Since 1998 teachers have handed out more A-grades while the average SAT scores have actually fallen. In fact, as Greg Toppo states, an author for USA Today, the amount of A’s handed out actually went up close to ten percent (4). Students can manipulate their courses so that they can get good grades without actually learning much of anything. With grades not accurately representing what students have learned and charter schools failing to solve problehms, teachers need to change how they structure their class or grade assignments.
Among one of the numerous debates of today, dropout age seems to be among the most debated. While the general public may wonder why dropout age is even an issue, many will agree that this is a topic worth mentioning in the world today. So what's the whole dispute about? Dropout age has been a concern for many people in the United States for many years now, mainly because while the majority of experts agree on its negative effects, others believe that dropout age shouldn't even matter. However, a group of U.S. Senators has recently taken up a position to lower the age to fourteen. So what's the answer to this debate? Contrary to the Senators' beliefs, dropout ages should be raised to prevent the negative effects high-school dropouts end up having.
What is one of the things that most people are accustomed to? Something that has been a part of their daily life. There are many things but what I am referring to is school. School has been around for hundreds of years. Whether it was to learn about religion or the mandatory classes we take now in the 21st century, many of us have been advised to go to school. It has changed a lot over the years and the system is still trying to improve how they could better educate their students in the future. Now, after going through many levels of school, people question themselves: why did I learn all of this? They question why they couldn’t learn more about taxes, buying a house or the important aspects when you get a car. School has become a
A person who does not have a high school diploma is at higher risk of being unemployed being a single parent, being in a gang, or being in prison; therefore, the mandatory age for leaving high school should be raised.
Society wonders at what age student should be treated as adults. In this country, sixteen year olds are considered as grown-ups. Certain people think that teens are adults when they are eighteen. Unlike people, students think the mature age of an adult to drop out should stay at sixteen. We should change the dropout age from sixteen to eighteen.
Second, academic struggle is another cause for the Community College high dropout rates. According to a new study that the vast majority of students overwhelmed by the lack of basic knowledge of literacy and mathematics, and they have to drop out instead of earning an associate degree or a vocational certificate. Especially the first semester, many students had a big headache of the basic algebra, quadratic equations, and writing, and they do not understand what the Professors talking about. Because many students had left school for a long time and they already forgot the knowledge, and it is hard for them to catch up all the learning process. Also, there is a big gap between the high school and college Math. The students should have
Currently, in hundreds of cities around the US, students who are struggling with their classes drop out of high school so they can begin making money immediately in low-mobility jobs. These jobs, colloquially know as “dead-end jobs”, neither benefit the participant, nor the society in which they are active to anything more than a marginal extent. This essentially worsens the condition of economic depression in the area, which is what originally led to the need for low-mobility immediate employment. If it wasn’t for this need-based economic motivation, and the students predecessors seemingly demonstrating to them that dropping-out can be a viable solution, there remains only one exterior impediment to the student to academic success. This barrier
Every year, around a million of high schoolers dropout due to many different reasons. Not to mention the failure rate of teens for their driving test slowly going higher after every passing year. So would putting up a bill requiring a person to earn a high school diploma before he or she could receive a driver’s license is just asking for more trouble. Having up a law that requires this type of accomplishment would just make living in a poor household even harder, especially when the teen in question needs to dropout to help his family survive on what little they have. Plus, what would happen to those that have their license now, but have not graduated high school. The bill must be resented at all costs to keep everything flowing well.
Returning to school was a decision we thought we would never have to make. We thought that we had everything all figured and getting a degree was meaningless. Those thoughts may have been true had we not come across something we wanted to do. At age twenty-two we decided on making law enforcement our future, but quickly realized that a high school diploma would only take us so far. Getting a degree was our only option with a career path chosen. But you did not want to just a degree in something that did not matter or apply to what you wanted to do. So you searched the internet for top ranked accredited schools that were financially acceptable to what you could afford. American Public School Services (APU) stood out amongst the rest for
You have decited on making a new school district in Jefferson County. I am writing to you so I can hopefully give you same ideas and persuade you to making a good school. I have Ideas and reasons on a the school’s name, mascot, and colors.
“Dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country, and this country needs and values the talents of every American.” -Barack Obama. This quote from Barack Obama was from his address to Congress. Some might say that high school is not for everyone, but dropping out of high school can affect your future. As of right now, the dropout age is 16 . Teenagers at the age of 16 are not very knowledgeable of what happens after high school. At the age of 16 teenagers are not an adult nor should have to worry about dropping out of school. Therefore, students should not be able to make this life- changing decision until their senior year. Getting a high school diploma is a big deal yet these students are dropping out and losing the chance to have a good job that pays well and have a better future.
I have chosen the dropout prevention programs, majority of these kids are from bad areas, poor and uneducated and when you confine them with others of the same back grounds they to tend to get worst. Depending on the crime a certain amount of time should have been spent trying to rehab them and allow them to enter society as a productive citizen. If we could get to them prior to this behavior and give them a chance to be successful citizen which in turn, starts with a good education and that means not dropping out of school ("Dropout ," n.d.).
Can you imagine a world in which parents were free to send their children to only the best schools, no matter which neighborhood they lived in? What if cost wasn’t a factor? Imagine if even a student in the poorest section of town had access to the best education. What could that child achieve? What would they become? How would their life change? Those questions that I asked lead now to the focus of the essay. The world we live in is ever so changing, with that the need for education also needs to be changing. No longer do classic public schools fit the job in all certain situations. That is why with school choice being a controversial issue in education reform, school choice public funds should be used to support school choice programs that offer parents alternatives to traditional public schools.
As I sat there and thought to myself what did everyone thing of me after hearing what I have done. “Taylor Bloom responsible for the deaths of 53 high school students. My head started to wander back to my high school days. In my sophomore year, I was bullied nearly every sing day by the stupid jocks. I started to hate myself so I decided to change my look. The next day I straightened my hair, put a black skirt on, and a white button up shirt with some heels, I left a few of the buttons on my shirt unbuttoned. I was making my way up to the school, I saw all eyes on me even the jocks could not take their eyes off of me. WAS I BECOMING POPULAR? Two weeks later I was the most popular girl in South Lake High. I had a tall, handsome boyfriend and my two new best friends Karli and Rebecca. Everyone wanted to be like me, everyone loved me or as I should say “worshipped me”. Until one night at a party I got super intoxicated and ended up doing things I probably shouldn’t have. That next day everyone was talking about it and all eyes were on me not that I am complaining, but it was not a good look they were giving me… they all knew what I had done that previous night. I did not show up for school the rest of the semester in fear I would lose my reputation so I started getting homeschooled.
Will negatively affect a student's future. Bob Keeshan once said,”Children don't drop out of High School when they are 16 they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.” Throughout the years studies have shown that in a year 1.2 million students drop out. Which leads that only 25% of High School students during their freshman year fail to graduate. Dropouts in the United States have became a very trending thing we must get to the bottom of this problem. Young adults should not be making these decisions it's time to step in.