“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss
Even Dr. Seuss is saying that people have everything they need to go down the right path, but some high schoolers have already given up. “Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds or 7,000 a day.”
The dropout age should be raised for high school because high schoolers who have “dropped out” are likely to be unhappy and they regret their decision.
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High school dropouts are less likely to be happy. Adults who drop out “almost universally express regret." https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-dropping-out
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http://www.dignityinschools.org/files/Pushout_Fact_Sheet.pdf
If the school is really harsh, more people could drop-out because of them not liking the school.
Schools are suspending and expelling students at a rate more than double that of 1974. http://www.dignityinschools.org/files/Pushout_Fact_Sheet.pdf
If schools are suspending more kids instead of working with them. They would just give up or might have behavioral problems that will eventually lead to dropping out soon.
The majority of suspensions are for minor misbehavior, such as “disruptive behavior” “insubordination”, or school fights, which can be interpreted in subjective and biased ways, and even unintentionally. http://www.dignityinschools.org/files/Pushout_Fact_Sheet.pdf
The majority of suspensions are from “minor disruptive behavior.” Concluding why the high school dropout age should be raised.
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I agree that the dropout age should be raised because you could place a group of students who don’t want to be there and disrupt the people that do, instead of them wanting to