How do we prevent HS dropouts? Should we invest more in red state education? Is this a good reason to not kill the DoE? ?

[DrPepper12]

[Anonymous]

Maybe look at who is dropping out. Statistics are also misleading. I went to high school in new york for a time and they were allowing everyone to pass. Basically the school existed as babysitting service. Everyone graduated who stayed in school but academic standards were low, a lot of graduates could barely read or write. So many of my friends went off to college to either fail or get a McDegree with thousands in student debt. I got pulled out gor a while when my father was looking over my homework to find that I was learning stuff I should have already learned, I was homeschooled for a time. My parents allowed me back to graduate in the last few months and the school was happy to keep their dropout rate low and raise their academic test scores higher.

My husband dropped out at 16 after getting his GED and went to trade school and got an engineering degree from community college.

Statistics can be manipulated very easily such as dropping the bar lower on academics.

[petitedollbabee]

Make it worthwhile for people to get an education. I can’t speak for the USA, but here in New Zealand many people drop out of highschool and go straight into trade work/apprenticeships because if you stay in school, go off to college and get higher qualifications, 90% of the time you struggle more to find a job because the government has cut thousands of non-physical labour jobs.

[MisterWack]

To reduce dropout rates, invest in the student.

Find avenues to fuel their creativity, academics, finding clubs that would suit them well, and allow resources to find good friendships that will last a lifetime.
Teach the student body why Highschool is so important, show them different avenues and career paths that it opens the door to, etc.

Students feel overworked, under appreciated, stressed, anxious, and feeling as though the work is seemingly never ending so we should reduce the workload through providing resources, guidance, less homework, and improving teacher / student relations.

Providing resources for a student’s mental health and maybe days off if needed would also help aid in this. Like we should be using our heads, hearts, and minds to fix the system that’s given us so much.

[exitseven]

Throwing more money at it will not solve the problem. It is mostly a parent/ child issue.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[RedInnocent69]

Tuition scholarships to continuing education programs

[seeyounexttuesday]

how about this? You drop out of HS you're ineligible for public assistance.

[exitseven]

Yes, that is the best idea we have heard all day.

[DrPepper12]

Elaborate on that. I'm intrigued

[seeyounexttuesday]

how much more elaboration do you need? You must graduate with a high school diploma or you are ineligible for public assistance

[DrPepper12]

No nuance? No exceptions? Stupid

[seeyounexttuesday]

cry about it.

[Pterodon]

Invest more? We already pay the most on education yet repeatedly have the lowest scores. Fuck the DOE.

[jahaims]

Put trade classes back in hs

[Dongie]

Put them in jail.