This just in! Newsflash! Newsflash! In case anyone out there was unaware, not every student that enters our classroom each day is destined for college. 1) Some students quite simply do not have what it takes to get into college, particularly at the university level, and 2) some students quite simply have absolutely no desire to attend college.
Want to prevent and/or decrease drop out rates? BRING BACK VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND GIVE OUR STUDENTS SOME FRIGGIN OPTIONS. IF WE PROMOTE AND NURTURE OUR STUDENTS INTEREST, THEY WILL STAY IN SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting at grades 4-5, parents of children who are at risk, should be given school recommendations and then have the option to have their children enroll in the following curriculum: reading and math in the morning. After lunch, have an extensive, intensive vocational program that stimulates the students' interest, potential, motivation, and ability. They would not drop out nor be pushed out, for the most part. And at the end of 12 years they would be marketable for WORK!
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