1. Leadership Project
There is high percentage of students dropping out of high school because they don’t want to study or struggle with a lack of money, motivation or family support.

2. Five hundred dropout students, ages 16-25, were interviewed
Five hundred dropout students, ages 16-25, were interviewed. They gave many reasons for leaving school:
47% said classes were not interesting
43% missed too many days to catch up
45% entered high school poorly prepared by their earlier schooling
69% said they were not motivated to work hard
35% said they were failing
32% said they left to get a job
25% left to become parents
22% left to take care of a relative
Two-thirds said they would have tried harder if more was expected from them.

3. Why do students drop out of school?
Do they know if they don’t finish their education they will not have a good job, they won’t make a lot of money, and their future is not going to be as good as a student who finished his or her education?

4. What do you want?

7. Knock a Door to Make a Change
By: Jose Vasquez

8. Goal and Potential:
Encourage students who have dropped out of school to re-enroll
Encourage them that education is very important to their future
If students finish their education they will have a better life.

9. In order to make this happen?
Specified Activities:
In order to make this happen?
I will ask teachers to volunteer and knock on doors of the students who have dropped out of school.
Make them understand that a better future is waiting for them
Convince them there are many teachers who care about their education and that the teachers will be willing to help them.

10. Timeline:
When I return home I will go to my school and talk to my principal about my leadership project. I will need his support in order for this project to be complete. He will give me the addresses of the students who have dropped out.
This project has to be done before school starts or it can also be done during the first semester so the students can start school second semester. That way they will get the second semester credit.

11. From July 19 – July 23 we will knock doors to the closest students we have around my school.
During first semester we will be knocking on doors to those students who live far away and those that didn’t want to start school first semester.