Do Children Drop Out of School in Kindergarten? by Gregory P. Hickman & Randy S. Heinrich

Author:Gregory P. Hickman & Randy S. Heinrich
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61048-577-7
Publisher: R&L Education

What happens next is that those youth who are at risk of dropping out become completely disengaged from formal school learning. All educators and interested stakeholders have to do is to look at the first semester of the 9th grade year to predict academic outcomes in terms of GPA. As you can see, there is almost no variation from the 9th grade first semester forward, regardless of whether adolescents drop out or graduate. See Figure 7.2.

By high school, not only did future dropouts perform even more poorly than they had in the past, but many also began to engage in problem behaviors that introduced them to the juvenile justice system. For example, future dropouts entered the juvenile justice system at an earlier age than future graduates and were assigned to more diversion programs, put on probation, and subjected to intense probation more often than graduates. See Figure 7.3.

Educators face the problem of what to do with youth who come to 9th grade so far behind their peers that will eventually graduate. Because of No Child Left Behind and state-mandated exit exams in many states, educators are forced to get these kids “back on track.” But, as you can see in our study, dropouts were never “on track.” How is forcing more demanding and rigorous courses as a matter of institutional and mechanized thinking going to get such students “back on track” at this point? Ultimately, such attempts by educators, parents, and other stakeholders backfire because these children drop out, on average, in 10th grade.

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