[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

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.

Question

How dangerous are these dropout schools for teachers and students?

Possible that teachers do not want to teach there as they are in fear?