Why I Shouldn T Drop Out

Over 1.2 million kids drop out of high school in the United States alone. Students drop because they fall behind in school, get low grades, wasn’t getting along with teachers or students, or had to support their family. There are numerous reasons why students have to drop out and the numbers are quickly increasing each year. Students should be in school till they are 18 because it will give them a better chance of graduating, raise their income and learn basic life skills.

1.2 millions of teenagers drop out of school in the United States every year. According to the National Center for Education, 79 thousand students have dropped out of high school in California, and the main question is why? Many of the times are because students tend to go on the wrong path. They start to hang out with the wrong people that don't want to have an education and are only going to school because they are forced to. When I was in high school I was so dictated to have the best grades possible. I was on the Avid program and involved in many of the extracurricular activities that Modesto High offered. I wanted my sister who was a freshman at the time to get involved in school activities, but instead, she got in involved with the wrong people. Her 4th-period teacher didn’t even

Every year thousands of high school seniors are faced with a decision. They could either go to college or choose an alternative. For some, this choice is easy, they know exactly where they are going and exactly how to do it. Others not so much. Some students try really hard to get into certain colleges and they don’t, others just quite literally don’t know what to do with their lives and they end up doing nothing. College is not valuable because there are many jobs that do not require college, and college has caused drug and alcohol abuse, also, college isn’t meant for everyone, and the people it’s meant for are mainly in the upper class.

In a rural area just outside of Chicago, 150 students marched at the graduation ceremony. That is a far cry from the 300 students that enrolled as freshman just four years ago. This is not an inner city school, but it is a reminder that there is a crisis in our nation. The high school dropout problem is everywhere. Speakers at graduation ceremonies talk about the aspirations and big dreams of the graduating class. No one ever mentions or notices the bleak futures of their peers who chose to dropout before receiving their diplomas. The reasons for dropping out vary by race, sex and community. Teenagers live in the present moment, never looking too far ahead to realize what the consequences could be if they left high

There is a lot of problems in the world, and people won’t do anything to solve these type of problems. Some of the problems are like pollution, population, not enough clean air, and many more. The one that focuses my mind more, and makes me more upset about is students my age, and older dropping out of high school. The reason this upsets me so much is because they don’t know how much they are affecting their life, and how much it’s going to hurt them in the future. I think this problem has become so huge in the United States that I am going to tell you how I would fix this problem, and why it is such a big problem.

All states should raise the legal high school dropout age to 18, but not because it will automatically increase graduation rates. Rather they should do it because of the message it sends students, parents, the public and the state about the critical importance of a high school diploma in today's global economy.

In the United States today, education is a tool that almost all people have direct access to. School is where some of our most imaginative ideas are formed; however, for an increasing amount of youth, school is a dreadful place to be where education seems to take a backseat to other issues. We constantly hear stories of female students pulled out of class based on their schools unfair dress code, trans students being denied access to the bathroom that matches their preferred gender, LGBTQ+ students who are bullied relentlessly by their peers, and stories of unfair treatment to Black, Muslim, and Latino students. Each of these problems may sound minor to the average person, but simply because they don’t apply to you doesn’t mean that they aren’t

School is a difficult thing that we all go through. As we progress through the school years, it becomes more and more difficult to handle. Waking up early every morning just to sit in a classroom for eight hours does not sit well with people. There are many individuals who are in school that reach their limit, the ones that are in college often question themselves about whether or not they have made the right decision to progress on to college. Those that are in high school do not feel like they can make it to their graduation day, this is where the idea of dropping out comes in. Students are often pressured to drop out of college or even high school because of the stress that they are receiving. Will I be judged for dropping out? What will my family think of me? How can I make it in society being a

In the education system today, competition for scholarships and acceptance into college is increasingly competitive. In order to access to these advantageous opportunities, students in high school work diligently in order to maintain high grades. As a consequence, distractions, and even worse, falling behind, can be disastrous. Many of these said distractions however, are fellow students themselves. Just as many students strive for excellence, others barely pass for mediocracy, and they drag diligent students down in their apathy of school. In order to remove these distractions, it could be suggested that by lowering the high school dropout age, it would benefit studious students by removing those who don’t wish to be attending school.

In 2008, Dallas Independent School District had the seventh-highest dropout rate in the country (Stutz, T & Hobbs, T, 2008). That may not seem that awful until you take into consideration that the Top 6 cities were districts in much smaller cities than Dallas. Since then, DISD has been implementing more programs to reduce the dropout rate and while there has been some improvement it isn’t enough.

Contrary to the fact that higher education is being more sought after, teenagers are dropping out of high school at an alarming rate every day. Some people can choice to see this situation as a sort of social Darwinism for the weak fall short while the strong excel. Since this statement, in its own right, proves true people neglect the expenses this minority takes on society as a whole. The amount of time, money and effort given to these students is wasted after all these years for now they won’t even have the benefit of having a high school diploma. I believe that both the state and the student suffer when they are slowly eased out of high school by “Senioritis.”

The students suffer consequences when they drop out of high school. Encourage students to get involved in different activities and develop talents and outside of school parents could do the same. Also schools should offer real-life opportunities, more help

Topic: What are the systems and supports that continuation high schools provide to students that address the issue of dropping out ? What are the factors that contribute to students dropping out?

High school is hard. There are bullies, people who harass others. People who have disabilities try harder because they can't understand as well. Kids ask themselves every day: why am I in school maybe I should just drop out. These questions may feel like two sides of the same coin, but there are separate issues here: What are the legal requirements for attending school and dropping out? Even if you can drop out legally, what are the probable consequences? Every state has their own laws as to when a child may drop out. "For instance, several states allow students to leave school if they: have received their parents' written consent and have participated in an exit meeting with school officials are legally emancipated, or are attending high school part time and are either legally employed or enrolled in a private vocational school."

Which has made it hard for these young drop out to find a stable job without a high school diploma. Some people don't really take this much in notice but it should be on of the many problems we should be really focused on. For example, I read this article by, David Levine which explains how a young girl named Beth decided to drop out of high school due to not wanting to wake up early anymore and thinking life would be better if she would just get a job. There are many things one doesn't notice when they make rad decision going back to Beth she didn't really think that finding a job would be hard but it was really hard for her to find a well paying job with such low education she had. Students need to realize that dropping is not an easy way out it's actually the hardest way out with such a young mindset all you think about is