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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, @04:33PM (2 children)
better not give those kids a free lunch, that woman is clearly a degenerate that was not failed by the lack of abortions or religious guilt manipulations by others. She chose to drop out!
Granted, she chose to have sex, too. but 18 years of hardship, if not longer, is a high price to pay compared to sex education and availability of female health services.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday April 12 2017, @09:35PM (1 child)
I find it a fascinating display of projection that in most of the examples I provided it was the hyper-left-wing education system that screwed those kids over by telling them they can't graduate because they missed too many class hours for a variety of reasons. The concept that becoming educated is the same thing as serving a prison sentence is kinda bizarre to start with, but its what we got, ya gotta do the time to get the diploma and most of the kids I can think of who failed to get the diploma failed because they had a realistic excuse for not doing the time ranging from jail to pregnancy to hospital.
Yet you go on some crazy rant seeming to imply the right wing was out to get them. The people that screwed those kids over were quite literally 60s boomer hippies of the most extreme sort. Leftism exists solely to perpetuate itself, not to help defenseless little kids or something. The dropouts were interesting examples of that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @10:28PM
so then why mention pregnancy if the problem you state is tardiness or absenteeism?
i find it hard to understand how a 60s boomer hippie has anything to do with some girl getting pregnant and having no support system available, the sort of future that buzzard hopes to achieve for his district. he doesnt strike me as an aging hippie. he strikes me as a shoot the commies when he sees the whites of their eyes type.
i dont know anyone that got kicked out of school for not getting enough credit hours. in fact, they graduated later as a form of punishment--they were told it would take longer!
anyone dropping out by me knew they wanted to do that so they could smoke weed and play the guitar and wait for their big break that never came. perhaps that is the intent you were aiming at for the pregant girls, but the girls are not running with the drug crowd. their getting pregnant because they are fertile and dont have good access to healthcare because its forbidden or taboo for teenagers to have sex.