Why Kids Drop Out of High School The high school drop out rate has been called a national crisis. Nearly one-third of all public high school students leave the system before graduating (Swanson 2004) and the problem is more severe among students of color and students with disabilities. (Greene &Winters 2005) Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States. That’s a student every 26 seconds or 7,000 per day. (dosomething.org) Dropping out of high school is an issue facing many teens today.
However, the lifetime expectancy of affective disorder for women may be closer to one in five. Of 2,654 college and universities surveyed nation wide, sates that one out every four students will drop out of school by their second year. Age: The age group of depressed college students is 18 – 32 many students find the adjustment from high school to college difficult. Even the student that seems most at ease with their new lifestyle will often confess to moments of missing their familiar high school friends, family and other comforts of home. A study by UCLA reports that more then 30 percent of college freshmen say they feel overwhelmed most of the time in the beginning stages of college.
It is estimated that over three million students drop outs in the U.S. and a large portion of these are African-American. Education still remains as the major tool for empowerment and the economic, social and personal well-being of citizens in any society. Because so many have indeed dropped out it will have deep and wide-range economic consequences over the long-term outlook. This research takes a look into the graduation statistics of low-income students, with a null hypothesis of: As family income correlates directly to high school dropout rates in students. It has been concluded that there are millions of children leaving in poverty.
However, most teens do not have intentions of doing things of this nature when they run away. They do not think about the things they will need for survival. A poll was taken for the National Runaway Switchboard and the results showed that 32 percent of youth runaways have tried to commit suicide at least once, 33.2 percent have reported being pregnant, and 50 percent have either tried to drop out of have been kicked out of school. The demographics show that 40 percent of youth in shelters and on the streets have come from families that received public assistance or lived in publicly assisted housing (National Runaway Switchboard,
Many college students become so distressed at some point they think briefly about killing themselves, and according to a study done by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education, more than half of the 26,000 students at 70 colleges said they had at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point in their lives (Roan, 2008). Two-thirds of those considered suicide on more than once in a 12-month period. Also, in Boston, they found that 15% of students admitted having seriously considered attempting suicide and more than 5% reported making a suicide attempt (Roan, 2008). The majority of the students said the suicidal-thinking was intense but brief, lasting one day or less (Roan, 2008). More than half of the students who experienced a suicidal crisis did not seek professional help or tell anyone about it.
A recent article states that about 77% of students have admitted to being the victim of a bully. The American Justice Department bullying statistics show that one out of every four kids will be bullied at some time by their adolescence (Bullying Statistics, 2013). One of the most unfortunate parts of these school bullying statistics is that in about 85% of bullying cases, no intervention or effort is made by a teacher or faculty member of the school to stop the bullying from taking place (Bullying Statistics, 2013). The consequences of bullying are numerous. Children are facing physical and emotional damage.
HoChristopher Paul Monmouth University EDC-501 Introduction to Student Affairs & College Counseling Current Events Summary #3 An October 20, 2012 article in the Athens News reports that Hockings College in Athens, Georgia is experiencing layoffs, administrative and academic restructuring due to a 4.3 million dollar shortfall. This lack of funding is attributed to decreased fall enrollment. Since 2010 the enrollment has dropped almost 25% from 6599 to 4581. This decline has spiked particularly in fall 2012 losing 1327 new students since fall of 2011. Student affairs was a department affected by this revenue decrease.
This serious problem causes many students to drop out of school. Nearly 1.2 million students between the ages of 15 and 24 dropped out of high school in one year alone. They do this to either to help their family or to get a handle on their problem. Students in broken homes are more than twice as likely to drop out of school than those with families intact. This is so because of the fact that this is another stressful matter these young minds must also deal with.
Why We Should Save Secondary School Sports Programs Abstract In the past 10 years or so high school institutions have been forced to make budget cuts. This has resulted in high school athletic programs being cut completely in some cases. While budget has much to do with the recent crisis, academics play a large role as well. The world of academia has taken center stage and more pressure than ever is being put on teenagers to excel at high levels in this realm. Some have argued that time spent in athletic activity cuts away from study time.
Ditching School Good Idea? I was watching a commercial the other day and Lebron James stated that every twenty six seconds a student drops out f high school. There are many causes why students drop-out of school. Students are ditching school and easily getting away with it. They're not understanding why it is so important to go to school.