Did You Know?Why Kids Drop Out
In a nationwide survey of dropouts ages 16-25, the respondents gave many reasons for their decision to leave school.
The top five reasons:
- 47% Classes were not interesting
- 43% Missed too many days and could not catch up
- 42% Spent time with people who were not interested in school
- 38% Too much freedom/not enough rules
- 35% Was failing in school
The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts, Civic Enterprises, 2006.
Quote of the Month
"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job."
Donald D. Quinn
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