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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
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @06:00AM (1 child)
When there is nothing for you there, for me it was lots of stupid teachers, no resources and no possibility of learning anything of interest, of course I was thrown out for not showing up so I didn't strictly speaking drop out
In my case, I wasn't thrown out (they tried and failed, crazy != stupid, something they didn't quite understand..), but as I'd mentally 'dropped out' anyway by that point it wouldn't have made much of a difference, but yes, lack of resources and being ineptly spoon-fed stuff that I'd already known for years finally made me 'switch off'.
It's not a good thing to know more about a subject than the person whose job it is to teach you said subject, and it's really not a good thing psychologically to have to then sit through this stuff day in, day out for years... oh, sure, there's always what you do in your own time to counterbalance this, but having to sit there as they try programming you by rote, as dictated by their rigid syllabus, wears you down eventually one way or another.
I'd have to disagree with you slightly regarding the teachers, yes, a lot of them were, as you put it, stupid (some were bloody criminals who had no right being anywhere near a school, that's another story though..), but I did have some good ones, and I have nothing but fond memories of my Maths and Chemistry teachers, both bloody good teachers and decent human beings.
As I'm now well over 30 years removed from my school days, I can look back at the actions of the 'stupid' ones and detect signs that they were just as fucked over by the school/education system as I was, it took a particular type of bastard to survive the 'political machinations' at my last school, the rot there was baked in, and started at the top, so no matter how idealistic the new teachers were at the start, the system changed them or spat them out. Unfortunately for us, the pupils, it was the damaged ones that stayed, and they further helped kibosh the education of a couple of later generations (my niece went to the same school 15 years after I escaped, same teachers, same old shit).
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives...eh?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 12 2017, @02:19PM
Would there been any hindrance to just go to the library and study directly for the GPA as quick exit ticket into something better?
How did you repair the damage done?