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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."
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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @08:54AM (1 child)
Considering that most school dropouts are male children, that male children are predominantly being judged on their capacity to sit still and behave like little girls and being increasingly diagnosed as suffering from ADHD, and that most kids who dropout are actually raised only by their mother owning to our current custody laws, I will say that breaking of families is pretty much THE cause of dropping out.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday April 12 2017, @02:28PM
Or the father dies and the mother has to take over the bread winning duties as was my case. Didn't drop out but lots of summer and night school helped me squeak out right on time.