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    • « Ways to get to know my students | Home | Silent Epidemic »

    Reasons for drop out rates

    By Amanda Adkinson | April 7, 2009

    I have been trying to figure this whole thing out. I have always prided myself on being pretty computer savvy but this class has stumped me! I think I have figured it out now so I am sorry for the late posting!

    I am going to cut and paste what I wrote in my journal, which is what I think I am supposed to do. Yeah? 

    Here is my first post:

    To me someone who does not finish school can look like a lot of different things. I have known people throughout my life who have dropped out of high school who are very, very different from one another and their reasons for not finishing school also differed. 

    For this assignment I really had to think of what I thought a high school drop out would look like. Maybe a girl, age 17 who is more interested in her older boyfriend who is not in high school than she is in her grades. She is probably slightly lower middle class and feels school is boring, not for her. She feels she can make more money by working, even though she most likely does not have steady employment. This of course is what I am thinking of when I think of some of the recent girls I have met who did not finish high school. 

    There are a variety of reasons people do not finish high school, some of those reasons could include:

    Pregnancy
    Death in the family
    Ill family member
    Abusive home
    Working to help provide
    Made fun of in school, bullied.
    Not feeling challenged
    Feeling bored, there is something better to do.
    Having friends, boyfriends or girlfriends who do not attend school.
    Having parents who do not enforce rules. 
    Not having friends in school.
    Parents divorcing. 
    Having to move away, to a different school.
    Not fitting in.

    There are probably several more reasons people do not finish school. I am hoping this class gives me some insights into the facts, information and numbers associated with high school drop out rates in our area.

    Topics: Dropouts |

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