Why is it that non-white high school students have a high percentage of dropping out? By: Mapa Mohulamu

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Why is it that non-white high school students
have a high percentage of dropping out?By Mapa
Mohulamu
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Facts

• the dropout rate among non-Hispanic blacks was 21
  percent, 12 percent among non-Hispanic whites,
  and 34 percent for Hispanic youth
• Black and Hispanic youth are more likely than
  non-Hispanic whites to drop out of high school.
• Asian youth, with a dropout rate of 3 percent,
  had the lowest dropout rate among all racial and
  ethnic groups in 2005.

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Stakeholders

• High school students
• -current
• -future
• Teachers and Professors
• Parents
• Familys
• Board of education
• Schools
• Government
• everyone

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Why

• Reasons why students drop out
• -unlikely to have the minimum
• skills and credentials necessary
• to function in today's increasingly
• complex society and
• technological workplace.
• Thirty-five percent said that
• failing in school was a
• major factor for dropping out
• Not Motivated

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More

• Nearly half (47 percent) said a major reason for
  dropping out was that classes were not
  interesting.
• Many students gave personal reasons for leaving
  school. A third (32 percent) said they had to get
  a job and make money 26 percent said they became
  a parent and 22 percent said they had to care
  for a family member.
• -Has no life/no goals

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Data

• Shows which ethnicity has dropped out and those
  enrolled.

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An Open Letter to the American People
There is a high school dropout epidemic in
America. Each year, almost one third of all
public high school students and nearly one half
of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans
fail to graduate from public high school with
their class. Many of these students abandon
school with less than two years to complete their
high school education. This tragic cycle has not
substantially improved during the past few
decades when education reform has been high on
the public agenda. During this time, the public
has been almost entirely unaware of the severity
of the dropout problem due to inaccurate data.
The consequences remain tragic. The decision to
drop out is a dangerous one for the student.
Dropouts are much more likely than their peers
who graduate to be unemployed, living in poverty,
receiving public assistance, in prison, on death
row, unhealthy, divorced ,and single parents with
children who drop out from high school
themselves.. - (continued on this site
http//www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/downloads/ed/the
silentepidemic3-06final.pdf)