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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: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Wednesday April 12 2017, @09:18PM
Never knew any dropouts myself... I should have dropped out though. I was miserable my last year. Nothing to do, really, except sleep in every class and wait. Nearly everyone in my high school class from 9th grade graduated.
Not everyone though. A couple died in gang fights, or fighting drug dealers. A guy I used to hang out with was expelled the day before graduation for drug dealing; we knew he'd get arrested for it eventually though. Some of us had tried to warn his parents, our own parents, school officials, etc but they did not believe us (he was very personable and got good grades...) and so he got picked up in a police sting. He couldn't have waited a couple days to sell them drugs, I guess.