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Drop out kids

            
             The viscous cycle that is taking over our high schools would have to be high school drop outs. The following races that dominate high school drop outs are Hispanics, Native Americans, and African American. Hispanics are the first minority group on the list of drop outs (Who Drops Out 2). Hispanics are at a twenty-five percent drop out rate and are increasing rapidly by the year. Native Americans are the second minority group on the list of drop outs. The Native American drop out rate is slowly declining because more of the Native American students are staying in school. .
             African Americans are steadily increasing in their drop out rate. They will soon become the second most on the chart of drop outs. Asian teens are the number one majority to continue in school and graduate. This is because Asians tend to raise their children with better values due to their traditional backgrounds. Many Asian parents don't find bad grades acceptable in their culture. With Asians focusing a lot of their ethics on respect and support for families many do not slack off during school. Many Asians use this as an advantage, some feel pressured and don't feel they need to succeed. .
             In the book Safe Passage, by Joy G. Dryfoos, it states some statistics about minority drop outs. In 1980 Hispanic high school drop outs were at a 27.9 percent of the total drop outs. Native Americans were at a 35.5 percent, Blacks were at a 22.2 percent, and Asians were at a low of 8.2 percent. Native Americans were at their high in the 80's, but have come down drastically since then. Hispanics have constantly stayed at a high. In 1989 about twenty five percent of Hispanic teens dropped out of high school, between the ages of sixteen to twenty four. In 1993 about 381,000 teens dropped out of high school between the grades 10th - 12th grade (Dryfoos). .
             In the year of 1995 there was about fifteen million teens between the ages of fourteen and approximately eighteen years of age.


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1. Should students have the right to drop out of school?

... ]. This is if they even get a job. Because 50% of dropouts are unemployed. The youth of America should not be able to drop out of school when they please, they should rather be made to continue their education until they graduate. This leaves these students more competent and mature ... young age of how education is important, either through television programs or just parents, and relatives. Yet more than 1300 students drop out of school everyday. All statistics in this paper are provided by the Board of Education. They are encouraged to do well and praised for ... kids when they are yo...

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2. Satirical Drop Outs

... It is horrible. The most annoying things are the "useless kids". These kids do nothing but disrupt the school and cause problems for everyone. Besides these guys could just stay at home and do the stuff they already do more easily. They should just drop out. There's tons of these guys. If you don't see them ... sessions. They"re the most anticipated days of the week. I remember on my freshman year when in lunch some of the skippers that attended my school had asked their out of school "homeboys" to come to the school and "tear da place up". It wasn't a pretty sight. There was a lot of ch...

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3. High School Drop Outs

... to go back and change there lives the thing that they would change would be staying in school. So why do students drop out of high school? I think there are numbers of reasons for dropping out of school but most of all they see it as a way to get away from there problems, of course all there ... The teachers and administrators should have better training, so they would be able to deal with students on a more personal level, thus will prevent the high school drop out rate from being so high. Botstein wants young adults to finish with school early so they have the time later in life to go ...

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4. Kids Having Kids: The Consequences of Sex

... , and be specific. They need to establish rules, curfews, and standards of expected behavior, preferably through an open process of family discussion and respectful communication. They should know what their kids are watching, reading and listening to. The media (television, radio, movies, music videos, magazines, the Internet) is chocked full of material sending the wrong messages. The media does not generally ... other relationships. Being a teenager myself, I have seen 2 friends of mine become a teen mother and father. Their lives have changed drastically, and they struggle emotionall...

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5. Kids Having Kids

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7. Career Goals - Learning to Teach Others

... am lucky to have them. Others do not have the luxury of motivating parents to help them finish school, so either they help themselves through school or they drop out from school. Living life on the streets, selling drugs, joining gangs, robbing and stealing. I have seen these things happen in the community I grew up in ... there to nudge a kid in the right direction is all I can do, count me in. Little help is better than none at all. Some kids drop school because their parents did not go, so it is just a never ending cycle of never ending wasted potential. Just because the generation be...

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8. AIDS

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9. Slangs In The English Language

... of standard English is due to an education deficiency. They explain that the reason some slang is created by kids in inner-city areas is that the kids drop out of school, because the kids are stupid, and therefore never learn standard English. In reality, the kids drop out of school because they are told that the way they speak is stupid (Seymour 123). The Conservatives are not ... willing to help the kids with "bad" dialects. Perhaps this is because of a prejudice, sort of "once slang, always slang" mentality ... . The Conservatives should use the kids' dialects to help the kids learn ...

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