Drop Out Rates in Hawaiian Schools

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When it comes to drop outs, those students do not seem to realize how close they truly are to success, high school is such a small part of a person’s life and some of those people have problems completing their education. Even though there is not enough funds to make sure all students can complete their high school careers, I believe the amount of high school students dropping out is getting too high because education is a large part of our civilization, you need to have a certain knowledge base in order to get by and students need education in order to get further in their life goals. If we created more opportunities, used a high amount of the state money towards education, there would be a higher completion rate of high school graduates.
There are not enough funds to make sure all the students can complete their high school careers. In the year 2008 the economic collapse there was a $469 million cut. With this cut for the educational system it created a large drop in funds for each individual school. Also with the low funding there are job cuts, so there are less teachers and administrators to be able to help every student. The student teacher ratio is going up with the cost cuts creating too many students per teacher, this creates an issue with the No Child Left Behind Act, the teacher does not have enough time to assure that each and every student understands the information given. Also with the budgets teachers end up getting salary cuts and this creates issues and their push to teach as well as before. The budget cut creates the problem of providing the proper transportation system for the students to be able to attend the classes granted to them. Another issue with the budget cuts creates an issue of lack of supplies for st...

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...ization, you need to have a certain knowledge base to get by. But most importantly, students need education in order to get further in their life goals. The big thing about dropping out is that students do not realize how close they truly are to accomplishing their goals, high school is such a small thing to get you going and if you think about it, it will all be worth it in the end. So what would you do, drop out after you have already done all the work or finish and continue on with your dreams?

Works Cited

Poythress, Katherine. “Hawaii Department of Education Bust.” Honolulu Civil Beat 16 Apr.
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Walden, Andrew. “Hawaii DoE Dropout Rate Jumps to 32.8%.” Hawaii Free Press 16
Apr. 2014: n. pag. print, 17 Apr. 2014

Breslow, Jason M. “By the Numbers: Dropping Out of High School.” Frontline 21 Sept.
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