The group of people which I would advocate for are disadvantaged youth. Disadvantaged youth are youth that have barriers such as a high dropout rates, unwed pregnancy, homelessness, and they tend to bring up children in poverty. I choose to advocate for disadvantaged youth because they are vulnerable and need help concerning education, housing and, obtaining the resources that are available to help them in society. Disadvantage youth are the most misunderstood population. They are misunderstood by their parents, their peers, their family members, and their teachers. As an advocate for disadvantaged youth, I would get on their level when discussing issues. Some segments of the United States population, such as adults with low literacy skills and disadvantaged youths, face barriers in making the transition into and through postsecondary education, including community college and career training, and these barriers can keep them locked in low-wage jobs.…
The implications of dropping out of high school are enormous, including a higher risk of poverty and a shortened lifespan. The person who has dropped out of school has a tendency to be employed in a low income job. These are the people who look forward to government resources. A person’s future is more guaranteed when he or she is educated. They can be anything in life if they are educated. Without education a person’s aspirations in life could be limited. According to research, a high school graduate will earn an average of $7,480 more a year than a high school dropout (Pou).…
In today’s society the pressure put on young adults to receive a good education is increasing every year. Despite this pressure many adolescents are dropping out of school in large numbers. Whether its high school, community college or a major university the number of kids who manage to complete their education from start to finish is getting smaller.…
Powers, Jane L. and Barbara Jaklitsch. Reaching the Hard to Reach. Education & Urban Society, Volume 25, Issue 4, August 1993.…
Instead, they choose to drop out and find it may be better to go straight to working to help their families out with their financial problem. Poverty often causes hard times and, “roughly 30 percent of students who drop out of school between the ages of 16 and 18 are working in a variety of jobs”(Rosales). Clearly, these students work to support their family in low-income communities. Most also feel it is a waste of time and others want to attend school, yet don’t have the opportunities to stay. Not all students from low-income families drop out to work, but for some their work hours may run into school hours. And for the low-income students work may be more crucial. They feel as though giving up on their education to help out their family is their final option. This decision of dropping out of high school will cost them all of their life’s potential. Because they did not receive a good education, they will most likely work low paying jobs throughout their live. These students are trading their futures for a cyclical they will have to live financial problem they have with for their whole life. If a student does not finish high school to work, “these workers usually fill low-skilled jobs and earn approximately $9,500 a year. About half work 40 weeks or more a year averaging 31 hours a week... On average, working youth contribute almost 22 percent to the family budget while approximately 10 percent of these teen workers contribute more than half”(Scott). Students who are under these circumstances work an average of 31 hours a week this does not allow them to focus on school and receive a proper education. Although they do not earn much money a year, it does make a difference. But is it really worth…
Most youths are working part time jobs while they attend post-secondary education or that is the only position they can find available for them. Part time jobs are not very stable, generally there are no benefits available, and there is not that much money involved. The chances for many young people to move past these jobs are bleak, especially with the spread of technological…
Teenagers dropping out of high school is a growing problem for citizens in the United States. High school dropout rates have progressively gotten worse because of a student’s lack of work and problems at home. Although the United States’ teen dropout rate is slowly declining as a whole, it is still leading to many other problems. I recently watched a report on the news, which mentioned that the U.S. is still towards the bottom of the education count throughout many countries. This report makes me wonder what the future will bring us. Will the unemployed over power the employed? Will our taxes continue to increase to pay for unemployment policies? How do kids that drop out of school early prosper in our society? I’ve also learned about teen…
Education has an immense impact on the human society. The quality of human resource of a nation is easily judged by the number of literate population living in it. This is to say that education is a must if a nation aspires to achieve growth and development and more importantly sustain it. In today’s world, the role of education has become even more vital. It is an absolute necessity for economic and social development, and the single most important predictor of good jobs and high income at the individual level. In the United States, the Department of Education aims to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring educational equity.…
When a young man or woman gets kicked out of school, he or she does not obtain their high school diploma. This negatively affects their chances of getting a good paying job as well as the types of jobs that are available to a drop out. The world we live in now requires at a bare minimum that everyone has a high school diploma or GED. As technology advances so too does the demand for a quality education. A high school diploma is hardly worth much in the working world as many employers seek individuals with Bachelor’s degrees and higher. This means that kids who get kicked out of high school will be severely limited in the types of jobs they are able to get and how much money they can…
Skills Gap Analysis for Graduates of Youth Polytechnics, Vocational Training Centres & Out of School Youth…
Some of them, we encounter on the streets. Other children manage to juggle work and schooling. Such arrangements, however, prove to be difficult. For others, once they drop out, they rarely return. Some manage to reach certain grades, but are unable to graduate. Meanwhile, children who completely lack access to early education have it worse (Rodriguez, 2014).…
This study aims to know the reasons of the students why they leave school and scoping out ways to resolve the problems stated in our full puissance. There are existing ordinance that may help to solve the issue.…
Once young students finish primary school, and some priviledged adolescents can complete secundary education, they have to think about university or work. University is left only to the priviledged students who can afford to move to the city to continue their…
When youth unemployment rises from 10% to 20%, the proportion of children whose parents have a positive attitude to schooling who wish to stay in education increases from 94% to 97%. The proportion of children who want to go to university increases from 84% to…
Also, parents prefer to teach their children a skill at home rather than sending them to school for which attendance is a waste.Nearly 46 million out-of-school children are not in the workplace either. They are in a state of enforced “idleness”, performing some irregular activities’. By not being in school, they lack basic education, and by being idle, lack essential practical skills. Once they become adults, they will join the population of the ‘ignorant and unemployable’.…