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1 in 3 minority students (32%) attend a dropout factory, compared to 8% of white students. In the U.S., high school dropouts commit about 75% of crimes.
All inmates who completed less than 12 years of schooling and those who received a GED were classified as not completing high school. About 75% of State prison inmates, almost 59% of Federal inmates, and 69% of jail inmates did not complete high school (table 2).
High school dropouts are three and one-half times more likely than high school graduates to be arrested, and over eight times more likely to be in jail or prison. Rigorous research has established the strong link between high school gradua- tion and reduced crime.
While 9.3 percent of the general population reported attending school that leads to a high school diploma or college degree in the last three months, 7.9 percent of the prisoners did so.
Dropouts are 3.5 times more likely to be arrested than high school graduates. Nationally, 68 percent of all males in prison do not have a high school diploma. Only 20 percent of California inmates demonstrate a basic level of literacy, and the average offender reads at an eighth grade level.
“There is a higher chance of the people who dropout [of high school] to go to prison because they don’t have a high school education to get a higher paying job, so that results in deviant behavior,” senior Victoria Melton said.
High school dropouts also have a much higher probability of ending up in prison or jail. Nearly 80 percent of all prisoners are high school dropouts or recipients of the General Educational Development (GED) credential. (More than half of inmates with a GED earned it while incarcerated.)
More than 60 percent of all prison inmates are functionally illiterate. Penal institution records show that inmates have a 16% chance of returning to prison if they receive literacy help, as opposed to 70% who receive no help.
alcohol problem, and 14% with a drug problem. school, 63% had been suspended or temporarily excluded, and 42% stated that they had been permanently excluded or expelled.
Incarceration. Not finishing high school doesn’t only impact a student’s future income. Dropouts are also more likely to be incarcerated in prison. … While less than 0.1 percent of bachelor’s degree holders were imprisoned, 1 percent of high school graduates and 6.3 percent of dropouts were imprisoned.
A Government survey has found that 14 percent of the high school sophomores in 1980 became dropouts and that most now regret leaving school.
Table 5.
According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 70% of all incarcerated adults cannot read at a 4th grade level, “meaning they lack the reading skills to navigate many everyday tasks or hold down anything but lower (paying) jobs.” Data supports that those without sufficient income earned by work are the most prone to …
Federal Bureau of Prisons
All institutions offer literacy classes, English as a Second Language, parenting classes, wellness education, adult continuing education, library services, and instruction in leisure-time activities.
While every prison is different, one of the few things they all have in common is access to books. Nearly every prison – whether state or federal – has some kind of library where inmates can go to check out different kinds of reading material. … But, for this post we are going to focus on recreational reading.
the exclusion is permanent; it is a fixed period exclusion which would bring the pupil’s total number of school days of exclusion to more than 15 in term; or. it would result in a pupil missing a public examination or national curriculum test.
Self-reported childhood abuse and neglect
Overall, 68 percent of the incarcerated adult male felons reported some form of early childhood victimization before age 12, either physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect.
Also, some research has been done on the life course of serious criminals. The findings of this research show that these persistent criminals often have a criminal parent themselves (van Koppen et al. 2017).
The consequences of dropping out of high school are that you will be more likely to become a prison inmate or the victim of a crime. You will also have a higher chance of becoming homeless, unemployed, and/or unhealthy. Simply put, a lot of bad stuff potentially happens if you drop out.
According to the latest figures from the National Center for Education Statistics, the majority of states now require that students be either 17 or 18 before they can drop out. Since 2000, the number of states that place the cutoff at 16 years of age has dropped from 29 to 15.
The latest report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education shows that 40 percent of African American males drop out of high school.
Table 2: Dropout Counts and Rates by Student Group
High School dropouts are more than twice as likely as graduates to live in poverty within a year and begin depending on public assistance for their survival. A higher percentage of high school dropouts have health problems because of a lack of access to basic care.
Consequences of Dropping Out. … Dropping out of school has serious consequences for students, their families. Students who decided to drop out of school face social stigma, fewer job opportunities, lower salaries, and higher probability of involvement with the criminal justice system.