High School Dropouts

[beauanderos]

While reading a Damon Vickers book The Day After the Dollar Crashes I came across a factoid. He claims 7000 kids drop out of high school
every day. I found this hard to believe so I looked it up. It's actually higher than that! The book was printed in 2011, the following
link has statistics up to 2014.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/high-school-dropout-statistics/

[plus1hdcp]

Very interesting and very sad

[Treetop]

One of my brothers dropped out of HS. They literally told him if he simply shows up most of the time they will graduate him but he quit like 3 months early anyway. It seemed rather spontaneous. Him and 4 friends or so just stopped going. Strangely getting a GED which he eventually did was much harder for him then even trying in school let alone just showing up and getting a free diploma. Don't ask me to explain his logic, I discussed it at length with him, Im not sure he even knows why he did it.

[johnbrickner]

Here where I work it's more difficult to pass. You have to turn in your assigned work. Not necessarily do it well or pass tests, but hand in the work.

[Doctor Steuss]

IIRC, my freshman class was about 1300 people. Graduating class was just under 700.

[Tourney64]

Does the statistic just include school days? I have a grandson who probably won't graduate high school due to having a learning disability.

[JadeDragon]

I strongly disliked school so I quit at 16 but I made sure that was right after they gave me my diploma There is so much allowance in the system to get people through that a dedicated student can plan and work themselves out of school early.

Dropout rates are dropping, but is it because more people are working to graduate or more are getting passed through to get the numbers up?