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    parents both were high school drop outs, so my family did not have much money. Then my parents saved enough money for one of my parents to go to college. My dad already had a stable job, so my mom went to be a registered nurse. Now my dad has a promotion and my mom is a successful nurse. So when I go to college, I want to be a hard worker and successful woman. First, I need to graduate high school so I can go to college. I would have to make sure to do my homework and make school my top priority.

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    dedication lately. My sophomore year I took it upon myself to become the next up and coming golfer in the school. My sophomore year there were two seniors who led the Golf Team: Ryan Sola and Spencer Haldeman. These guys had been showing me the ins and outs of High School Golf and what it takes to succeed at that level. In the Summer, Ryan tried to practice every single day. If Ryan had to work or was out of town he always found a way to get to the range or play a round of nine or 18 holes everyday. Spencer

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    different school as a freshman, where nobody knew me was hard. I had to prove to them that I was a good runner, but I have failed. Since kindergarten, I grew up watching my older siblings play sports and track has always caught my interest. I was fast runner and everybody knew it and I just couldn’t wait until I could do track in middle school. During middle school, I got even faster, I was at my

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    In a black community, dropping out of high school is more common among the black race than those of the white race. Thus, those poorly parented males do not graduate, and therefore, look to the streets for guidance the not given to them at home*. In addition to poor supervision, black makes are restricted in their educational opportunities to pursue*. For most, not having the ability to further their education forced them to drop out of high school and pursue the street life*. After multiple types

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    high school diploma generally carry the burden of poorer health throughout their lives, a greater chance of being unemployed, have a higher chance that they will use drugs, and a higher rate of going to prison, compared to people who attain at least a high school education. In addition, a large portion of those who do get a high school diploma, don’t continue on to get an associates or bachelor’s degree in college. Study shows that one of the main reasons that students drop out

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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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    Dropping out of High School 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

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    education became a challenge. Four out of eight children in my family, including myself, were able to earn a high school diploma. The other four dropped out of high school due to a combination of language barrier and gang affiliation. My research papers sought to examine the reason why so many at risk youth end up dropping out of high school. As an undergraduate at Sonoma State University I was able to expand my knowledge on why Latinos drop out of high school and explore why some end up joining

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    old, fresh out of high school and I recently got a job at my old high school. I work out of the lower level of my school as a kind of computer technician. It can be kinda messy and unorganized down there, but there is a nice two-person office. It has two nice big desks and a giant array of computer monitors on the wall. Also, there is that all so satisfying air conditioning, a luxury the students and teachers can not enjoy. I got the job because three of my old computer teachers flat-out adored me

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    academically. It can be incredibly frustrating to struggle with schoolwork while attempting to adjust to living in a completely new way. Dropping out of school isn’t a completely illogical decision for someone if they feel that they are going to fail regardless of how much effort they put forth. “We build a simple continuous-time model where high school graduates are uncertain about their innate ability to accumulate human capital in college” (Ozadagli 279). There are many small factors that can help

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