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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 12 2017, @04:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the got-tripped-up dept.

What pushes a teenager to suddenly drop out of high school? The answer: any number of very stressful "trigger" events that occur in their final few months in class, researchers at Université de Montréal's Public Health Research Institute have found.

In fact, adolescents exposed to severe stressors are more than twice as likely to drop out in the following few months compared to similar schoolmates who are not exposed, says the study led by UdeM pyschoeducation professor Véronique Dupéré.

The stressors are not always school-related. In fact, most occur away from school and can involve family members (divorcing parents, for example), conflicts with peers, work issues (being laid off), health issues (a car accident) and legal issues.

[...] "These findings show that the risk of high school dropout is not predetermined over the long run," Dupéré said. "Rather, it fluctuates and becomes higher when adolescents have to deal with challenging situations in their lives. School personnel thus need to be aware of their students' changing needs in and out of school to provide them with the right kind of support at the right time."

What has been your experience?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170410123935.htm

[Source]: What triggers a high-school student to suddenly drop out?

[Abstract]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12792/abstract


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @05:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @05:57AM (#492636)

    The reasonable way to handle all these things: let students fall back a grade as needed, preferably not a whole school year.

    School isn't a foster home or orphanage, and it isn't personal private tutoring. Being these things is not reasonable for a school.

    What is reasonable, at least in large school districts, is flexibility. (not going to work in a school with 100 kids)