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Action Tips: Educate Yourself on Issues of Inequality
Educate yourself on issues of inequality: at your school, in your state, globally.
The following sites provide vital information and statistics on what has been called the "silent epidemic":
Consider the facts: every 29 seconds another student gives up on school, resulting in more than one million American high school students who drop out every year. The typical freshman class loses 40 percent of its students to dropouts by their senior year. Dropouts are much more likely to experience personal hardship, be dependent upon government assistance, or end up in jail. Their earnings will likely be much lower than high school graduates and far lower than those who go to college. Worse yet, children of dropouts are more likely to become dropouts themselves, which perpetuates the tragic cycle. Educate yourself!
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As a high school dropout, this cause definitely means something to me. I have a couple of ideas on how to fight education inequalities, so plan on hearing more from me soon!
I'm not a highschool dropout,but I know many who are.
Being learning disabled, I have faced many chalanges. I graduated highschool, and am in my second year of college. I always need to work harder just to show people that I am as compident as a "normal" person. I find that people have diffrent learning styles and it is the education systems job to use diffrent methods in the classroom to reach the students. For example I am a audio-visual learner. So movies and powerpoints are good options for me.
I wanna make my new law country in mexico be abolished. They are making against the law to fail like you cannot fail and sometimes failing is needed because you can't continue.. You bearely can do nothing and still pass but learn nothing at all. however just to year 9 and then high school which is year 10 to 12 and in orther to enter of course you need to know and people won't be able to learn and then to enter and our country will be running wrong):
i am not a high school dropout, but saw it many times. some of my friends even family have dropped out of school. At the time i tried to talk them out of it, but it they didn't listen. Is later on i realized that some times it isn't because they want to, it is just what is going on in there life....
Dropping out of school is the worst thing that can happen to any student.Nobody plan to dropout,this something that happen without you knowing.though I am not a dropout,but some of my friends are.and these are girls we started schooling together.and most of them dropout of school,when had their first boyfriend.so I think this is a problem we all should try and solve together.because changes don't just happen together we make it happen.
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