A Bleak Future Completing high school is a rite of passage for young people. However, some high school students choose to leave school early. This choice involves many life-altering circumstances. The likely consequences of dropping out of school are lowered income, poorer health conditions and higher crime rates. The most likely consequence of dropping out of school is lowered income compared to high school graduates. Since most dropouts do not have specialized skills which are required by upper-level jobs with relatively high salaries, they more likely start at the entry level positions with lower pay, and they are often restricted to positions offering less opportunities for promotion. According to an article on the ETS website, high school dropouts earn $9,200 less per year on average than those who graduate. They will earn an average of $375,000 less than high school graduates over their lifetimes. Also, high school dropouts are more …show more content…
First, education facilitates healthier behavior choices by offering learners access to health information and tools to acquire help and resources. However, high school dropouts do not have this opportunity to gain health knowledge. Second, because of lower levels of job security, dropouts are less likely to receive job-based health insurance. Without access to health insurance, people may not receive important preventive health care which can lower the incidence of severe diseases and increase life span. According to an article on ABC News, “Students Dropping Out of High School Reaches Epidemic Levels” reports that a high school dropout has a life span that is nine years shorter than people who graduate. Third, people with low salaries like high school dropouts are less likely to be able to purchase healthier food, better medical care and health insurance. Due to these factors, high school dropouts face poorer health
There are many different reasons why students decide to drop out of school, according to Stats Canada “Young men continue to have higher dropout rates then young women. In 2009/2010, 10.3% of young men and 6.6% of young women had dropped out of high school.” (Gilmore, 2010) Men have a higher rate of dropping out of school because they tend to want to work and make money rather than getting their education. Men are better known to not be that involved in school as much as women would and if they have the opportunities to have a job without their education they would opt to do that instead of staying in school because they would rather be making money then getting their education. They may feel that work is more of a priority and that making money is more important. Young women have different reasons than young men to why they may opt to drop out of school. “Young women were more likely to drop out because of personal or family reasons, such as pregnancy or having a young child at home.” (Gilmore, 2010)
Considering the statistics, the term “dropout” tends to have a negative connotation. A person who graduated high school will earn roughly $260,000
Unfortunately, a dropout could definitely be considered a quitter, which in the United States is not a term one wants to inherit. To not be named as a dropout, one must graduate. There is more than one path to high school completion (USDE, 1996).
Teenagers dropping out of high school affect every single person in America. However, most people do not understand why they should personally concern themselves with one of the most stereotyped subsets of the United States’ population. One unacknowledged fact about dropouts is that they will, over the course of their lifetime, cost the United States government $72,000 while high school graduates will benefit the government $315,000 (Emery). This affects every person in America. Taxpayers and their families are forced to pay for the services high school dropouts need. Such services include food stamps, welfare, incarceration costs, and even healthcare. Since high school dropouts are expected to make drastically less money than their classmates who did graduate, they need to rely on the aforementioned services at some point in their life; some high school dropouts rely on government assistance throughout their entire life. High school dropouts are also 63 times more likely to become incarcerated than college graduates (Breslow). This also puts a huge strain on taxpayers and their families with the cost to run prisons rising each year.
Most people want a lot of job opportunities to choose from well in order to have those opportunities you have to have a diploma or GED. Other people might say that you can still get a good job even without a diploma or GED, most of the time those are low paying jobs at a fast food restaurant. The diploma can get you almost any job because most jobs require you to have a high school diploma or GED. Instead of always being passed by for the good jobs, you’ll have the opportunity to get jobs that are more interesting. Most people who just drop out of high school have a harder time
Even though there are financial reasons that men and women drop out from school, there are other reason as well to why they do it. Sometimes, they hang out with the wrong crowd of friends and make poor choices. They decide to join gangs and leave school because they decide that being in a gang is more important. They begin to act, dress, and do different things. They start stealing because they find it a lot easier to d and they get things
Hindsight Bias- Thinking a solution from the past can also be used for the future.
How does dropping out of high school affects students’ lives in the future? Students’ dropping out has become a crisis, President Obama said, “It’s time for all of us to come together parents and students, principals, and teachers, business leaders and elected officials to end America’s dropout crisis” (“ President Obama”). There are 7 thousand students’ that drop out of high school that adds up to about 1.2 million each year, wouldn’t it be nice to drop that number and help kids stay in school instead of dropping out of high school(“ President Obama”). Students’ shouldn’t drop out of high school because they couldn’t go to college, couldn’t hold down a job, and would struggle making minimum wage for the rest of their life.
The completion of high school is the beginning of adult life. Entitlement to public education ends, and young people and their families are faced with many options and decisions about the future. The most common choices for the future are pursuing vocational training or further academic education, getting a job, and living independently.
If you chose to walk away from high school without a diploma, then expect it to be extremely hard to find a decent paying job. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “…approximately 54 percent of the nation’s young high school dropouts were unemployed in 2008.” One reason dropouts have a hard time finding a job is because the majority
It has been known that young people who drop out of high school and do not earn a diploma come to face more problems later in life. Some struggles they may experience are unemployment, poor health, turn to drugs & alcohol, and live in poverty. High school students who dropped out before graduating are more likely to drink, smoke, use illegal drugs, committing crimes, and becoming teen parents. In the states of North Carolina alone it is known that approximately 53 teens become pregnant every day, North Carolina is said to have the 9th highest rate for teen pregnancy ...
Family issues, poverty, and homelessness cause students to drop out of high school as it impacts education by placing stressful obstacles in children’s learning path. A National study found, “Overall, 22 percent of children who have lived in poverty do not graduate from high school, compared to 6 percent of those who have never been poor” (National Study). Lack of educational success can also contribute to throwing in the towel on school. Some students may not be receiving the additional supports to give them success in school. Imagine coming home on the bus after a ten hour day and having your ninth grader ask for help on their algebra. If you possessed the skills, which you likely do not, you may be too exhausted to help. In addition there is still dinner to cook and other household chores to complete. It is a daunting request that you may not be able to comply with. “Family poverty is associated with a number of adverse conditions — high mobility and homelessness; hunger and food insecurity; parents who are in jail or absent; domestic violence; drug abuse and other problem…” (Shonkoff & Garner, 2012 as quoted by Rumberger). Poverty is an obstacle to learning even for the brightest children. As a result few can overcome these stumbling
Every 26 seconds one of our kids drops out of high school, that's 1.3 million students each year. The main reason for dropping out, the failure to succeed. Society puts an insurmountable amount of pressure on these kids to succeed, however this can actually be extremely detrimental to the students and children.
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Teens today face a lot of pressure. Many students deal with difficult life situations that hinder them from focusing on their futures. This can lead to a loss of interest in school and school events, such as a sports, clubs, or after school programs. Teens start to prioritize other things over their education. Every year, over 1.2 million students will leave school without earning a high school diploma in the United States alone (“11”). That’s a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day (“11”). The United States, which used to have the highest graduation rates of any country, now ranks 22nd out of 27 developed countries (“11”). Students may not realize that by dropping out of high school they are more likely to commit crimes, become parents at a young age, use and abuse alcohol and drugs, and live in poverty (“Drop”). Dropouts make up the majority of those