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    Have you ever wondered who pays for a student to be able to get into public school? We do. It cost $10‚616 to send a student to public school for one year. School dropouts should pay back the money used to educate them. If they don’t pay back the money then that would mean the student flushed our money down the drain. Every 26 seconds a high school student drops out of school. That’s over 65 billion dollars a year‚ if this keeps up then our money should go towards other things like projects‚ debt

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    economic well-being. Who would not want to have a diploma in hand and acquire a high wage job in the future? Surely‚ it‘s neither you nor I. But before obtaining our diploma‚ our reward‚ hardships and problems should first be overcome. Such hardships and problems are the main causes why most high school students were unable to graduate and just drop out from school. The occurrence of high school students dropping out from school is not the student‘s fault alone but rather‚ this goes hand in hand with different

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    1995 report on high school dropouts by the Educational Testing Service (ETS)—Dreams Deferred: High School Dropouts in the United States. The report uses some of the latest information from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education to discuss the hundreds of thousands of young people who drop out of school each year. The dreams of these young dropouts are said to be “deferred‚” or postponed‚ because more and more jobs today require a high level of skill

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    degree under their belt along with attaining a very high paying job in the future. What a lot of people fail to realize is that prior to accomplishing a degree‚ and reaping the benefits‚ adversity as well as many different problems has to be conquered first. These same adversities and problems are the leading causes why most college students were and are still unable to graduate and they just give up and dropout. That is because when starting school they don’t prepare themselves for these things so

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    What Can High Schools Do to Lower the Number of Dropouts? It is clear that dropping out of high school has very serious consequences for the individuals‚ the society and the nation. People who drop out of high school earn half as much annual income as those who graduate. High school dropouts are more likely to be welfare recipients than high school graduates. This does not mean that high school diploma is an absolute solution or dropping out of high school results to negative outcomes but it implies

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    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. In a school setting pressure is applied to young adults to succeed from a very young age. From the time children enter grammar school they are being molded for success. Kids are being told that in order to get a high paying job in today’s society they will need to

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    Melbourne High School is one of Australia’s most prestigious school in countless aspects‚ not only for its highly reputable academic achievements but through diversity‚ sporting‚ music‚ participation and history. It is obvious as to why thousands of students apply to this school yearly seeking for opportunities while only a small amount gets in‚ and I personally believe that I would suit one of these places at Melbourne High. Academically wise‚ I believe that I’m a well-focused and diligent student

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    them for support. They wore black tee-shirts‚ one declaring “Indian Pride on the Rise‚” the other showing a heavy metal rock group “Twisted Sister.” Both wore high topped basketball shoes and hair free flowing to their shoulders. One spoke to me. “Hey‚ are you the lady who is talking to dropouts? You should talk to me. I’m a professional dropout.” I did. And to many others. Their stories spoke of racial discrimination and rejection by teachers. “The way I see it seems like the whites don’t want to get

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    mostly my late middle school and high school years‚ my interest in job careers has changed many times. Right now I’m interested in working with children. Mostly focusing on their development during preschool years. I’ve always wanted to work with people‚ I just didn’t know in which field. This interests me because I can be the authority figure‚ gain experience in children before I actually have kids‚ and I can do a program for this during my junior and senior years in high school. When working with

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    High Dropout Rates Negatively Affect Students and the Nation High School Dropouts‚ 2013 Listen The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington‚ DC-based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve education policy in America. America pays dearly for its high school dropouts. When young people do not graduate from high school the economic impact is extensive. For the dropout‚ wages remain significantly lower throughout their lives. The country’s overall economy

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