Students
studying at U.S. Schools have a high chance of dropping out, especially in the
larger cities, says David Macaray, an author in Los Angeles, CA.
“At large cities
we have a very high dropout rate in the United States. About 35 percent of
American students do not finish high school. In the larger cities that’s closer
to 40 percent. It’s really shocking,” Macaray said by phone on Saturday.
Members of
racial and ethnic minority groups drop out at higher rates than White students,
as do those from low-income families. High school dropouts in the U.S. are more
likely to be unemployed, have low-paying jobs and be incarcerated.
In an article
published in Commondreams.org about the state of American schools, Macaray
writes that “classroom discipline is lacking, students are tardy, students are
absent, students refuse to do their homework, parents do little to support their
kids’ academic progress, administrators are nothing but highly paid
buck-passers, and the standardized state tests (which have ZERO bearing on a
kids’ report cards or their opportunity to promote to the next grade) are
arbitrary and flawed.”
AHT/ARA