Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day.
About 25% of high school freshmen fail to graduate from high school on time.
The U.S., which had some of the highest graduation rates of any developed country, now ranks 22nd out of 27 developed countries.
The dropout rate has fallen 3% from 1990 to 2010 (12.1% to 7.4%).
The percentage of graduating Latino students has significantly increased. In 2010, 71.4% received their diploma vs. 61.4% in 2006. However, Asian-American and white students are still far more likely to graduate than Latino & African-American students.
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-high-school-dropout-rates
1.2 million a year....really good numbers there :3oops:
and hispanic kids graduate at an astounding 74% rate....and they wonder why they have poverty issues?
i dont care where we were 40-50 years ago....back then you could get a decent job without a high school diploma....there were factories still working, and they needed bodies to work the machines
those factories arent here today for the most part....and yet, you all still think that if the numbers are better, that we are fine
well we arent fine, and we wont be....until we get 98% of the kids graduating or higher
you want more income equality....you have to have families that require their kids complete the basics of education
until then, you are just spitting into the wind