1. High School Pitfalls

2. The Essay Prompt
What are the biggest pitfalls that a high school student needs to avoid in order to succeed in high school?

3. It is Easy to be Average
It is Hard to be Great

4. High School is Fun Independence Clubs Fun Sports Jobs=Your own money
Going out at night
Cars
Parties
Boyfriends/Girlfriends
Alcohol / Drugs

5. Peer Pressure Fun Distractions from School Crime Alcohol Drugs
Irresponsible Sex

6. Making Saddleback the Goal (Instead of the Safety Net)
Just go to Saddleback

7. 79% 91% 9% Saddleback Dropout Rates Do not transfer Dropout
to a
University
Transfer to University or Earn Certificate
79%
91%
Do not transfer
to a University
Dropout

8. Partiers

9. Alcohol

10. 55% 45% Teen Alcohol Use Do Not Use Alcohol Use Alcohol Binge Drinking
Alcohol Poisoning
Teenage Drunk Driving
Alcohol Addiction
Depression
Suicide
Long Term Health Dangers
45%

11. Drugs

12. Teen Marijuana Use
Use Marijuana
23%
77%
Do Not Use Marijuana

13. Depression

14. 80% High School Depression Rates Do Not Experience Depression

15. Jobs

16. Love

17. Sex

18. 47% 53% Had Sex in High School at Least Once
High School Student Sex Rates
47%
Had Sex in High School at Least Once
Never Had Sex in High School
50% of Sexually Active Teenagers will contract sexually transmitted diseases by age 21.
53%

19. 33% 67% 97% No Teen Pregnancy No Child Before 20 Years Old
Teen Girls Having a Child 3%
33%
Teen Mothers
Teen Pregnancy
67%
97%
No Teen Pregnancy
No Child Before 20 Years Old
3 of 10 Teenage Girls will get pregnant
Pregnancy rates for Hispanic and African-American teenage girls are twice as high as White and Asian girls

20. 50% 50% 95% Complete High School High School Graduation Rates
Teen Females
Without Children
Teen Mothers
High School
Dropouts
50%
50%
95% 5%
Complete
High School
High School
Dropouts
Complete
High School
Fewer than 2% of teen mothers graduate from college.

21. 80% 95% Adult Poverty Rates Females Who Were Not Teen Mothers
20%
Do Not Live in Poverty
80%
Live in
Poverty
95%
Live in Poverty
Do Not Live in Poverty

22. 80% The Teenage Brain 20% Do Not Live in Poverty 5%

23. The Essay Prompt
What are the biggest pitfalls that a high school student needs to avoid in order to succeed in high school?