Should Students Have The Right To Drop Out Of School?.
For Years now American law states that when students reach the age of sixteen years they may drop out of school if they please. Thousands of students a year execute this right and make the choice of discontinuing Their education. This leaves these students at a major disadvantage at only the ninth or tenth grade level. This level of education is not usually sufficient to get these students even mediocre employment in the future. There are some exceptions far and in between, of people who actually become successful in some other way. [Most of the time this does not occur, statistics from the Board of Education show that high school dropouts make 42% less money in the workplace than do graduates]. 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 enough to be able to carry the responsibilities of adulthood.
Children raised in America are taught at a very 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 their accomplishments. Often kids are reminded that they are the future of this country. The irony in this situation is that after all the effort put into kids when they are young, they are given the choice to leave their education incomplete at the very young, and naive age of sixteen. Though sixteen and eighteen are only two years apart in numbers they are centuries apart when it comes to youths mentality. Why is it that the law feels okay with allowing a sixteen year old to drop out of school, but he/she is still not responsible for his/her actions? Parents are still responsible for them.
Well I don't need to remember, I"m living through it right now. ... They should just drop out. ... I have always wondered what the reason for these people to stay in school was. ... I honestly think that these guys should drop out. ... Skippers are better of dropping out. ...
More than likely, students are not aware that dropping out of school is usually not the best choice they could make. A few major contributing factors which cause students to drop out of school are teen pregnancy, financial hardship at home, lack of parental support and simple boredom. 7,000 students drop out of school every day (Alliance). ... Now, of course it is not ideal for a teenage to have a child by any means but that should not give any one or school the right to make the situation harder for the teen if they are trying to do right by the consequence of her action. ... Every school sh...
When a mandatory school uniform policy is adopted, determine whether to have an "opt-out" provision. a. ... Therefore, say experts, public schools must offer parents the right to decline to have their children wear uniforms. ... "For a public school uniform policy to be legal, it has to have an opt-out provision (Siegel)". This means that every child has the right to a public school education, and that right must not be unconditional without compromise of a school uniform policy of standardized dress code. ... Yes, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts reported that due to the ne...
The parent may mention how being a high-school graduate helped them or how they were hurt by being a high-school drop-out. ... This may help students see the reality of being a high-school graduate or that being a high school drop-out can seriously affect that persons' life. ... I think having an actual person to talk to is better than just watching a video or having the teacher discuss the topic, because the person is right there, the students know that the situation is reality, and the students know he or she is for real and the students can ask the person their own personal questio...
As a result of this, many students may choose to drop that course so they have less to deal with. ... " Another effect of dropping a college course is having a W placed on the student's transcript. ... Whether it be trying to get into graduate school or just get a job straight out of college, the student has a much better chance of getting chosen rather than the student with many "W's" on their transcript. ... It may be a stretch, but college students have enough stress to begin with, and adding more hassle can sometimes cause students to just give up and drop out. Wh...
In order to cope with the pressure from school, students may turn to bad habits. ... Many teens around the U.S have firsthand experience of the effects from stress. ... Secondly, homework and schoolwork should help students learn the material, but when there is a work overload, students feel overwhelmed. Homework and schoolwork stresses students out because they cannot spend time with friends and family, which hurts them because it does not allow them to enjoy their lives. ... If something is not done soon, America is creating a generation of stressed-out and unhealthy students....
Many school boards, mindful of their responsibility to provide safe school environments for students, have implemented policies specifying dress codes or the wearing of uniforms after seeing a correlation between school uniforms and the decrease in school violence as well as increase in school behavior. Educators and the public are divided over the value of implementing school-uniform policies in the public schools and whether it should be mandated that all schools adopt a school uniform policy.8 Policy Problem: Determine how effective school uniforms would be in improving ...
Therefore, say experts, public schools must offer parents the right to decline to have their children wear uniforms. ... This means that every child has the right to a public school education, and that right must not be unconditional without compromise of a school uniform policy of standardized dress code. ... According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts it has been reported that due to the new release of uniforms in Laurence High School, attendance of students has dropped rapidly and 600 students have been given detention and 200 suspended. ... If policy makers are ser...
Public Schools Should Require Uniforms More and more schools are making uniforms mandatory for students. ... Just a year after the schools adopted the uniform policy, fights and theft went down 80 percent and sexual offenses dropped 74 percent. ... The students suggested the following solutions; the schools should confront racism and cultural conflicts, there should be more school activities anytime for students themselves to express their feelings to their peers, they feel that there should be programs to help them find a part time job, and schools should have classes that teach conf...
