More Americans are receiving their high school diploma today than ever before. As early as 1970, only a little over seventy percent of the population finished four years of high school. If I remember correctly, the figures today show that close to ninety percent are completing high school or an equivalent program. Many of the statistics we see do not take into account the number of students who drop out and later return. Furthermore, they do not relate people who art still in school, but did not graduate on time.

Regardless of what the statistics bear out, students' dropping out before completing high school is obviously still a problem that needs t

Since many of the reasons for dropping out start in places outside the school, I am not sure what measures schools use to prevent this from happening. There have been millions of government dollars put in to studying and preventing dropouts. These programs have had very little effect on the situation. I think the main causes stem from the home and surrounding environment. Many dropouts have at least one parent who did not graduate from high school. Some are in situations where neither parent graduated and many do not even live with their parents. This does little to foster an excitement of school and of bettering oneself through education.

o be addressed. The problem is deciding what needs to be done. In many situations, there is not much the school could do to prevent the student from dropping out. The number one cause of dropouts, especially among girls, is becoming pregnant. This is an issue for males a well. Often times they quit school to get married, or at least help support the child and mother. Some people quit school just because they would rather go a

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