Highschool Dropouts

Think about having your best friend dropout of high school. Student dropouts happen about every 29 seconds in America. No one could help them with what they were going through to make this dramatic decision. Each year, approximately 1.2 million students fail to graduate from high school, more than half of whom are from minority groups. Nationally, about 71 percent of all students graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma, but barely half of African American and Hispanic students earn diplomas with their peers. In many states the difference between white and minority graduation rates is stunning; in several cases there is a gap of as many as 40 or 50 percentage points. A sixteen- to twenty-four-year-old coming from the highest quartile of family income is about seven times as likely to have completed high school as a sixteen- to twenty-four-year-old coming from the lowest quartile. Even though students may dropout everyday there are reasons for their leave such as grade retention. Grade retention is when you fail a grade and they keep you back to repeat that grade. Another reason for dropping out is for poor academic performance which has to do with not showing enough effort in the classroom. A good reason may just be that he/she moves to a different location during high school but still you should finish as soon as you get there to your new location. Many students seem to all want to have high absenteeism which after enough absents they are kicked out of school by law. These are just the major causes there are many different reasons for dropping out of high school.
So what can you do to help your friend in need? Try to encourage your friend to see a school consulor. Even the student can do something for himself by going to tutoring. There are tutors all over country such as Sylvan one of the most -expert tutors. Now you your parents do not have enough money or funding to go to Sylvan. You can always attend free tutoring at your school. Thanks to the...