Girls Dropping Out
Do you know anything about the dropout rate in your local school system? Do you have a daughter who may be in danger of dropping out of high school?
The National Women’s Law Center has a new report titled When Girls Don’t Graduate, We All Fail: A Call To Improve High School Graduation Rates for Girls
The statistics truly are alarming. The report states that 1,000 high school students drop out of school each hour in America. This means that 30% of the class of 2007, or 1.2 million students are estimated to have dropped out of school last year.
Also according to the report, one in three boys, and nearly 50% of some racial and ethnic groups will not graduate with a diploma in four years of high school. Among girls, one in four overall will not graduate from high school. One in two Native American girls will not graduate; four in ten African-American girls, and nearly four in ten Hispanic girls do not graduate each year.
The study gives the following recommendations for dealing with dropout prevention:
* Combating sexual harassment in schools. Both boys and girls report that they drop out in part because they do not feel safe at school. Download a fact sheet on sexual harassment for schools or for students.
* Providing better support for pregnant and parenting students. Pregnancy and parenting responsibilities play a significant role in many girls’ decisions to drop out of school.
* Ensuring equal access for girls to career and technical education classes. These classes provide training for high-skill, high-wage jobs. Offering career education programs that emphasize the link between academic work, college success, and careers has been proven to reduce dropout rates.
* Ensuring equal access for girls to after-school programs, including athletics programs. Studies have shown that participation in after-school programs improves graduation rates and academic achievement.
Do you know anything about the dropout rate in your local schools? Even if you don’t have teens at risk of dropping out, you should be concerned. We’re raising the generation who will, one day, be in charge of things and, hopefully, taking care of us!
Volunteer to help in efforts to curb dropout rates. Our teens and the rest of society will be better for it.
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February 23rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
Hi.
This article is RIGHT ON. I’m work with parents as a parent educator and life coach, focusing on parents of teens and pre-teens. I am looking for ways to connect with parents as I reach out in my local and in the virtual community. Any thoughts on how to connect/reach out to parents is most helpful.
Thanks
Marsha Finkelstein
Parent Educator & Life Coach
Moving Beyond Coaching & Consulting
http://www.movingbeyondcoaching.com
February 27th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
fuck all these bitches that dropped out…If yo daughter dropped out she a fucking dumb ass bitch!!!!!!! fuck yo life ho!!! i will never in my life fucking dropout of high school….your daughter deserves to be abused…….
March 14th, 2008 at 10:53 am
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April 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hi! I’m Zen, 15 years old, and found your site while doing research for my parenting blog, teensonparenting.bloogspot.com =]
The dropout rate in my school is neither high nor low, though the majority of them are Hispanic girls. I really like your post for putting all these stats in perspective - I truly was unaware that so many people dropped out per hour! I hope one day our education system will improve drastically, because right now teenagers view school as a prison of sorts. =]
April 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Great post. I strongly feel that a parenting/educational system of communication from day one in school helps.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Parenting teens is tough, my advice is to stay one step ahead anddrug test even if they don’t use drugs, it’s a good out for them. My son has told me that when someone has offered him drugs he says, I can’t, my mmom drug tests me
May 30th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
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Thank you.
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May 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Hello,
are you a parent of a teenager who attends high school in the USA?
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If you have any co-workers/parents you can think of to forward this to, please go ahead.
Thank you.
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May 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Sorry, I think I messed up my post. I’ll try again…
…………….
Hello,
are you a parent of a teenager who attends high school in the USA?
We are doing a quick survey. Please click here to take our 3-minute-survey survey:
Take-the-“Parent-of-an-American-Teenager”-survey-now
If you have any co-workers/parents you can think of to forward this to, please go ahead.
Thank you.
Tom