Do you think I should just go ahead and drop out of school now?
Some girls, especially when they reach ages of 15 or 14, they drop out of school.
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, about 38 million children drop out of school each year.
But others may decide that it is better to drop out of school as soon as possible.
And students with disabilities drop out of school at twice the rate of their able-bodied peers.
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Violence, and its threat, is one of the key factors forcing girls to drop out of school.
Families may not be able to afford school books or uniforms, so their children drop out of school.
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So could the number of children who drop out of school too early.
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Children of single parents are much more likely to experience childhood poverty, become teenage parents, and drop out of school.
Many children drop out of school before completing a full primary cycle.
In addition to these, the nomadic lifestyle of herder families makes the children, particularly the boys, drop out of school to assist the family.
That will mean girls will spend longer walking to fetch water which could encourage them to drop out of school and bear children earlier.
Peter Thiel is free to spend his money the way he wants and those teenagers are free to accept the offer to drop out of school.
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Data on the extent to which students drop out of school before receiving a high school diploma also correlate with measures of family income and parental education.
Today, students from low-income families are five times as likely to drop out of school as students from high-income families, according to data from the Department of Education.
When dads are not around, young people are more likely to drop out of school, use drugs, be involved in the criminal justice system, and become young parents themselves.
The prospect of a higher wage encourages people to drop out of school and participate in the labor market (where they might crowd out those who are even less productive).
Take a moment to listen to the story of Setraniona, who regularly suffered from water-borne diseases and had to drop out of school as a child before completing her education.
It is estimated that every year about 7 million children fail to attend school or drop out of school before completing primary education, thus about 60 million Bangladeshis are functionally illiterate.
There is some evidence that parents of children at grade 6, 7 and 8 who are doing poorly on academic grades lose the financial support of parents and drop out of school.
They never want to accept responsibility for kids who drop out of school but they're the first in line to claim credit for the kids who wind up in the Ivy League.
If you feel that it would be better for you to follow your entrepreneur dreams and drop out of school or not go to college just for this time period, then do it.
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But his take-home pay has fallen by nearly a third and the thought that his brother may have to drop out of school so he can help the family gnaws at Mr. Zhang.
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Before you accuse me of calling for millions of students to drop out of school, let me make a few things clear: First, if you have viable alternative, dropping out may be the best option for you.
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Without water 'on tap' economies can't get going, children are more likely to drop out of school or just not attend in the first place and hospitals find it virtually impossible to cope with the spread of disease and infections.
"I know that nine little children did not walk through a schoolhouse door in Little Rock so that we could stand by and let our children drop out of school and turn to gangs for the support they are not getting elsewhere, " he said accusingly.
Most of the rest are shunted off into special schools for the mentally disabled or else drop out of normal school before they are 15 years old, many of them defeated by bullying and homework that is hard to finish in cold and unlit homes.
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, 10 million children drop out of primary school every year.
Unfortunately, increased minimum wages induce some teenagers to drop out of high school and take a job.
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