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Posted: 10:27 AM Apr 2, 2008
1.2 Million American High School Students Drop Out Every Year
The numbers are stunning and discouraging. They show America's inner-city schools are failing to do their job. Reporter: Sharyn Alfonsi |
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These drop outs do not need educational resources, they need to value education, and that starts at home. Drop outs are also behavior problems that act out for attention they do not get at home. If a kid knows that school is important, they are more likely to listen to the teacher, than beat up or cuss out the teacher. Inner city kids have it the worse with the drug culture that is so rampant. If a kid knows right from wrong, and gives the teacher a chance, then the student can become engaged and learn what they need to. I see all of the craziness by teachers on your website, but there are great teachers who care that quit everyday because they can't take a kid cussing and threatening them everyday. When society realizes education starts at home, and from birth, then, inner city public schools have a chance to be great.
very sad
After reading some of the stories on http://detentionslip.org, I can't blame students for dropping out. The site has all the crazy breaking news in public education.
Well I think that it starts at home. I was fortunate to have two parents that were very strict about my schooling. I grew up in the city of detroit. It is very hard to maintain but if you have support from peers and/or family you will succeed. Also, I think one of the reasons suburban schools have a higher rate of graduation is because the students have more resources such as books, tutoring programs, etc. The inner-city is limited to those things. If you were to flip them around and give the city those resources and deprive the suburban schools then city schools rates would increase and the suburban schools would decrease. All in all, we have to come up with more funding and resources for our city schools or they will never see a change.