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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
That happened a lot back in the early part of the 1900s. I grew up on a small farm in southwest Iowa and graduated from high school in 1965 and I don't remember a single farm kid dropping out of school. Education and graduating from high school was stressed pretty hard at that time. There were a few that were junior thugs that dropped out but they were town kids and were in jail within 5 years. In the mid west for the last few decades the family farm doesn't really exist, it is mostly large farmers that have bought neighboring farms or rent the land, and corporate farms. I believe you will find the majority of school drop outs are inner city kids in large cities.
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Nevada has the highest dropout rate in the country. Vermont has the lowest.
There's apparently a thing called "dropout factory" schools, that's the term used to describe schools that have a persistent problem with a high dropout rate. 32% of minority students are districted to attend dropout schools. Only 8% of white students are districted to attend dropout schools.
Seems to me that schools containing primarily minority students are not being educated the same as schools containing primarily white students. It's not the fact that minorities are minorities - because the ones who are districted to attend non-dropout schools do as well in them as the white kids do. And white kids in the dropout factory schools trend as badly as the minorities attending those schools do.