Sentences with phrase «dropped out of high school because»

So what if I dropped out of high school because I got pregnant?

He may have dropped out of high school because there was easy money to be made dealing drugs on the streets of Springfield.

Hollywood actress Winona Ryder has recalled her misery after she was forced to drop out of high school because of bullies.The Edward Scissorhands...

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The extraordinary real - life story of Jim Morris (Quaid), who, twelve years after dropping out of minor league baseball because of an injury to his pitching arm, is inspired by the young men on the championship - winning high school team he coaches to fulfill his own dream and try out for a professional team.

And then she dropped out of school because no one would talk to her, and she came back in the fall for high school, all of her hair was cut off and she was totally weird, and now I guess she's on crack.

«They are now dropping out or at risk of dropping out because they have little or no chance of meeting tougher high school graduation requirements,» Feldman said.

Because teachers were considering intangible factors, even when race, gender, family income, and academic achievement are the same, there was no way to isolate the effect of being held back, much less to make reasonable conclusions about the effects of retention on a student's academic achievement or the probability of his dropping out of high school.

A guidance counselor at my school recommended I drop out of high school after my junior year to go to college because there was no way to test out.

I mean, I can make a long list of people who dropped out of college or high school and who were immensely successful, and I can make an even longer list of students with absolutely spectacular straight - A records, not because they were so fantastic but because they were great test - sitters.

The report's authors contend that the high number of suspensions and the large discrepancies in the populations of students who are suspended are extremely troubling not only because of the lost learning time, but also because suspensions are a leading indicator of whether a child will drop out of school and face future incarceration.

This brief asserts that students with the highest truancy rates have the lowest academic achievement rates, and because truants are the youth most likely to drop out of school, they have high dropout rates as well.

Because high school dropouts earn $ 250,000 less on average over a lifetime less than graduates do (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2006), their children are more likely to be raised in poverty — and students from impoverished households with undereducated parents are themselves more likely to drop out.

I was a ninth grade English teacher with very little seniority in a school where senior teachers who taught eleventh and twelfth grade really didn't understand the extent of the problems some of our students were having because so many of those students would drop out before they made it to higher grade levels.

While that program has not yet graduated its first cohort, its record through the early years of high school is impressive: Not a single student has dropped out, and the promotion rate in school is 98 % (the only exceptions are a student who transferred to a parochial school where he was asked to repeat a grade, and a boy who lost a month of schooling because of family turmoil).

The unique high school is designed for nontraditional students, those who have dropped out of school because they had to work, had a baby, had behavioral problems or for other reasons.

This is personally meaningful to me because I struggled in high school, skipping the last four or five weeks of my junior year (at Hillsboro High) and dropping out in the Fall semester of my senior year (at Hume Fohigh school, skipping the last four or five weeks of my junior year (at Hillsboro High) and dropping out in the Fall semester of my senior year (at Hume FoHigh) and dropping out in the Fall semester of my senior year (at Hume Fogg).

Interim school superintendent Robert Mahon said the district loses many of its students to charter schools before they reach ninth grade because of violence and high drop out rates.

The school originally chose to redesign itself into an SF institution because, besides having many special programs to help high - risk youth, it was still experiencing extremely high drop - out rates, low rates of college enrollment among its graduates, and poor academic performance of its students.