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    million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds-or 7,000 a day. Students should be able to graduate in three years because some kids want to go to college as early as possible, it would allow people to get better jobs at a younger age, and it would cause less drop outs because they could finish it in less time and graduate faster. Students should be able to graduate in three years because a lot of kids want to go to college as early as possible

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    Why do students drop out of their courses? Every year, some students drop out of their courses in various reasons. The main causes are their grades, policy of the class, and the teacher. The effects when students drop out are course retake, wasteful money, and increase the year of going to college. Retaking the courses are very problematic. Students can have various reason why they would retake their courses. Some students either have low grades or dislike the class. I am also retaking class this

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    achieve the success they desire by not going to college or dropping out of college. Other people find their success by going and staying in college. Of course as with everything else dropping out of college would have its positives and consequences on not only our immediate life but our development going forward. Through research we can find out how dropping out of college effects most people going forward. First off, when someone drops out of college there has to be a reason why this occurs. It

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    opportunity to obtain some desirable results from such knowledge assimilation in the future. Education increases the chances of a person to having a successful career and a secure life. According to Freeman Hrabowski in his article “Colleges Prepare People for Life,” “Yes, colleges prepare people for jobs, but more critically, they prepare people for life” (260). Some people could argue that there are a lot of wealthy or even rich people who do not have higher education. It is true. However, experts with

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    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

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    Should Students Be Required to Drop Out of School at 18? Students should not be required to drop out of school at 18 years old, because they can live a better life if he or she stay in school.Missy Remiss said, “If a student makes a reasonable decision to leave school for work, that decision is most likely to have a negative impact over his or her life”. Students who drop out of school earlier can get into a massive amount of trouble, such as getting put in jail, or students can get into

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    Increase in college drop-out: Rough draft Why is the college dropout rate steadily increasing? These numbers include the freshmen, sophomores, and the juniors who seem to be the most affected. The majority of students are dropping out because of the higher cost of tuitions. Most college dropouts could not afford the cost of textbooks and other fees in order to continue their education. Also the lack of study skills needed to help them succeed and not enough resources available to students

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    First, if college is essentially free and the student drops out, where is the money going? The first opposing point is that taxpayers would have to pay for student’s tuition. But if the student drops out of school the money is completely wasted. According to Norris Norton “the cost of attendance as calculated by the school and regulated by the U.S” (Norton). This being said, “free” college would eliminate the cost of tuition. Students would be responsible for their extra expenses they chose to buy

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    Street Journal asks “Should college athletes be paid?”. The question colleges are arguing about. College athletes that don’t have a scholarship should be paid because they are doing work without a reward. If they don’t want to pay them, pay their college and it will be better. About half of college athletes don’t get any financial aid. Why are they doing work without any reward? College athletes are being paid illegally. Most americans can’t afford college and drop out because of the cost. ESPN said

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    learning institutions, but at the time there was nothing new about for-profit colleges. These colleges have been around since the colonial era, and they were funded by entrepreneurs which in their time they were usually the high ranking clergymen. During the colonial era there were not enough places of education for everyone to learn, so these entrepreneurs created for-profit colleges, and they are still here today. These colleges seek profit more than they do education. They are owned by shareholders

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