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Drop Outs In El Paso

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Drop outs in El Paso

We have heard about the large amount of students dropping out of their high schools, blocking their education for several reasons. Either personal, or just because of the fact that they are not into school. These problems have their origin with their own families who in most of the cases push the students to leave school. Students think that money is everything and in some other cases they are force to go out and search for this resource. Some other young people feel peer pressure and decide to leave home having other responsibilities on their shoulders, and one more time it is all about money and the way they are raise at their homes.

The question is, what are teachers doing to prevent this? Further on what is the government doing about it? As of today, the United States is consider to be "first world" but first world of what? People only care about working and producing more to live but as of education is concern, the education system in the U.S. is real low, and these gives students the chance to look for "something" more interesting.

If we were to ask people around their 30's or 40's we might find that more than have of them did not graduate from high school because of the lack of attention that their parents would have with them when they were little. Some others might say that they ran away from home and they had to care about other responsibilities, but for whatever reason they had, they did not finish high school. For those who did get to graduate only few of them went to college and only a minority finish a bachelor's degree. One more time, what is the government doing about it? The implementation of new programs have help a little specially with children that are a head of the other average students. For example the fact that in some High schools, they are giving students some college courses so that they could be familiar with them and these courses also count for credit

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