High School Dropouts

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High School Dropouts

Entering high school is the beginning of a whole new learning experience. Transitioning from middle school, high school presents more classes, students, and a bigger campus. It brings new expectations and responsibilities to each of us. High school also offers fresh chances to make new friends, try new sports and activities, and really explore who we are as individuals. The goal is to maintain good grades, score high on the SAT test, and keep a positive attitude so colleges and universities will accept you. Of course it's not as easy at sounds, but it's achievable. It requires a lot of work and dedication to every subject. Some students breeze their way through while others live in misery trying to pass their …show more content…

In many high schools, a failure to be in class for one day would immediately constitute a demerit and detention referral, unless a student arrived with a signed doctor's excuse. This is where many students become rebellion and take school as a joke. Soon, these students stop coming to school so they have more freedom, and eventually dropping out.
An additional explanation for high school dropouts is absenteeism. It is very important for students to go to school everyday. Students who have poor attendance for reasons other than illness are also more likely to drop out. Clearly, students who miss school fall behind their peers in the classroom. This, in turn, leads to low self-esteem and increases the likelihood that at-risk students will drop out of school. Also, research has proven that truancy obstructs opportunities for future employment success and is also a major channel into drug use, daytime crime, and violence (U.S. Department of Education, 1996). The U.S. Department of Justice has reported statistics indicating that in some cities daily absentee rates have reached as high as 30 percent (Garry, 1996).
Bad school experiences are also a large contributor for the school dropout rate. A large majority of dropout students were only taking the bare minimum general high school requirements. This is the result of ineffective teachers and lazy school administrators. Each school should have counselors that sit down with each student to set

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