BRIEF SUMMARY
Dropout prevention is an important part of our role in schools.
KEY POINTS
- By every metric, high school graduates fare better than non-graduates in adult life.
- Proactive intervention is key and needs to begin early in a child’s academic career. Collaboration with students and parents is key.
SHARED WISDOM
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- Why do students drop out?
- poor attendance- missing more than 20 days of school annually in grades 9-11
- not doing homework
- falling behind on credits
- having an IEP
- ISTEP re-tester
- not involved in school activities
- on or been through Probation
- In or been through Foster Care
- Absence of active and/or strong parental guidance
- no hope, no direction or vision beyond high school
- have to work to support family
- Grad Academy (students meet 1/2 day to get caught up with credits and 1/2 work based learning. In most cases students are low C40 or General Diploma.)
- There are online credit recovery programs available. Sometimes a shortened or adjusted school day is an option.
- JAG is too expensive for small, rural schools
- We work with our local career center who does HSE classes if we get to that point and they work with a local place who provides support and money to pay for the test.
- Why do students drop out?
RESOURCES
CONTACT
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- 1StopABCD on December 13, 2018 @ 15:22:26
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This post was created by ABCD ContentManager on August 7, 2016.