in this modern world, kids are sent to school as young as three years old but, it may not the expected purpose. Learning in school is a long journey with so many obstacles and challenges that may throw some one into the blowing waves of dangerous zones. Regardless of the academic resources available there are teenagers dropping out of the school and ending up life full of regret.
What are the resources available in colleges in Minnesota? Health services, Professor office hours, International/domestic peer programs, Mental health services, safety programs, Food discounts, Used bookstores and Computer labs and even including sports activities for the students. Still some members of the community are not making use of these resources or benefiting from these opportunity but the question is why?.
“If somebody is getting off the path, it’s much easier to make the correction if you discover the problem quickly,” Renick says.
Typically, Renick says, students are most vulnerable to dropping out within the first year. At Spelman, however, Campbell says the school has noticed attrition between student’s sophomore and junior years.
Regardless of when students leave, it’s statistically unlikely they will return and finish their degree.
“Nationally, the data show that if a student ‘stops out’ involuntarily from college, even for a single semester, they only have about a 30 percent chance of ever coming back and finishing their degrees. So we want to keep the momentum going, and keep people enrolled. Once they ‘stop out’ there’s a lot of inertia that is difficult to overcome, and to get them back into college,” Renick says.
Education professionals suggest that students meet with academic advisers right away to get back on track. And while the schools are trying to be proactive to get students to graduation day, they say students need to do the same and plan ahead – even before college.
“In addition to doing the research beforehand, to figure out what college fits best, I think students and families really do need to sit down and do that long-range financial planning and be very deliberate about that, because it’s four years – it’s a significant investment,” Campbell says.
So now how can we help drop outs to come back to school and finish their preferred level= I could say community awareness and team work with in the current students and work together on how to build that breach of uplifting the fellow students(drop outs).
Ultimately, despite a school’s best efforts, some students will drop out. For those that do, there is a path back to college.
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