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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @06:36AM
I was just too dumb to learn. Yes, I blamed the teachers, I blamed the curriculum, I blamed the fact that I was just not interested because nothing they said to me made any sense and I was not interested enough to try to figure it out! Yes, I was too dumb to learn. And so my Father, in his infinite wisdom, sent me to a Military Academy. Not real military, where, you know, you could die. Just pretend. But they did wake you up really early in the morning, and I had to say, "Sir, yes Sir!" a lot. But I did learn how to grap women by the ***** and I am the president of the Greatest Country in the World now, and I think I can start a nuclear war with North Korea, and will. All because I dropped out of high school.