High School Drop Out concerns

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• Published on Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:59

          According to a report from NPR, Of all the problems this country faces in education, one of the most complicated, heart-wrenching and urgent is the dropout crisis. Nearly 1 million teenagers stop going to school every year. The report goes on documenting the life and challenges of drop out teenagers. Johns Hopkins researchers have also labeled some public schools as dropout factories. Well the U.S. may not have a perfect education system but it is still one of the best in the world. Tax payers continue to invest millions in improving the school system, yet

despite all these, high school drop outs remain an issue. The big problem in this country today is the lack of personal drive and discipline with American kids. It is so pathetic that the education system has been created to almost beg teens to stay in school. What needs to happen is to go back to the old ways of holding teens accountable, whatever happened to personal responsibility? Let us stop using therapy on drop out kids, instead let us start giving them the hard truth in life. If a person can’t make it to school every day to sit in class, how can they make it to work every day on a scheduled basis? If these teens can’t get along with their peers or their teachers how can they work for a demanding boss or deal with different personalities at work? Let us stop glorifying how people made it without a high school diploma; of course it can be done. But the realities of competition to succeed in America today are pretty stiff. College graduates find themselves ill equipped as companies look for the sharpest candidates with work experience. 7000 miles away are countries that are hungry for competition and thanks to globalization U.S. companies can pick from a global work force to find their best candidate. If we as a country want to remain a global leader we need to teach kids about the challenges ahead instead of feeling sorry for their challenges.