1. High School Dropouts That wont be you, will it?

2. Did you know? Graduate!!! Dropout!!!
That 1 in every 3 high school students drop out.
For every 15 kids 5 of them drop out
Graduate!!!
Dropout!!!

3. Money Made
High school graduates make on average $9,245 more per year that drop outs
In 50 years that’s $462,250
Money that you could make!!!
Instead its all thrown away!!

4. Factors affecting drop outs
School is unfavorable
Discipline is loose
Drugs and Alcohol
Academically inferior
Family conflict
Feel socially incompetent

5. Jail
It is estimated that 45% of the students who drop out of school will go to jail
That’s almost half!
In 1997 a study found that 47% of drug dealers in prison were high school dropouts

6. In those Jails… A study in 2003 showed:
75% of state inmates were high school dropouts
60% of federal inmates were high school dropouts
70% of all inmates were high school dropouts

7. Percent of Out-of-School Year Olds Who Worked At Some Point in 2007 and Their 2007 Mean Annual Earnings
Educational Attainment
Percent Who Worked
Mean Annual Earnings
High School Dropout
60.4
$8358
High School Graduate 79
$14601
1-3 Years of College
87.7
$18283
Bachelor’s or Higher Degree
89.4
$24797
All
78.4
$15149

8. What skills do they have?
70 percent of all high school dropouts in jail have an equivalent of a 4th grade reading level
These books have a 4th grade reading level

9. What have we learned?
Dropping out does not make life any easier…. It only becomes harder
It increases your chances of winding up in jail
Its not fun!!!
You wont make the money you could be making!!!
So stay in school