High School Drop-outs: Cause And Effect

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future.
Sometimes teens drop-out because of a lack of fear instilled into them by
their parents. Many teens have little or no parental supervision. Coupled
with a lack of communication skills between parents and teens, the result
can be a lack of involvement with school.

There is an absence of effort put forth by many of today's students.
They seem quite lackadaisical and have no discipline when it comes to
their studies. Continual failure is often a prescription for tremendous
overload and stress. It tends to amount to the self-fulfilling prophecy
of dropping-out. Dropping-out is their only escape.

Dropping-out can be prevented. Selling teens on the benefits of
staying in school requires continual effort and a great expenditure of
time. Parents have to be more in tune with their children's needs and
desires and be willing to help them cope with their troubles. Parents
must be more forceful in encouraging their teenagers to remain in school.
But teens themselves must ...

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