Why High School?

Drop out Statistics

• Over the course of his or her lifetime, a high school dropout earns, on average, about $260,000 less than a high school graduate.

• High School dropouts make up a higher percentage of people living in poverty

What is Poverty

• the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support;

• condition of being poor.

Poverty and Education

Questions

• Why is it that students who are raised in poverty, statistically do not perform well in school?

• Why do students at Jones Senior High School perform well?

The U.S. and the World

Social Impact

• Healthcare– Average Life

Expectancy in 2000• US = 77.8 years• Without a HS Degree =

9.2 years lower than average =68.6

– The lifetime medical expenses of a HS dropout are approximately $83,000 more.

Social Impact

– A 65 year-old person with a HS diploma typically enjoys better health status than a 45 year-old who dropped out in 10th grade.

– HS dropouts are 3.5 times more likely to be incarcerated than HS graduates.

National Costs

• Dropouts from the Class of 2008 alone will cost the nation more than $319 billion in lost wages over the course of their lifetimes.

• If the United States‘ likely dropouts from the Class of 2006 had graduated, the nation could have saved more than $17 billion in Medicaid expenditures for uninsured health care over the course of those young people‘s lifetimes.

National Costs• Increasing the high school

and college graduation rate by 2020 has the potential to increase personal income that would add more than $310 billion to the U.S. economy.

• Increasing the graduation rate and college matriculation of male students in the United States by just 5 percent could lead to combined savings and revenue of almost $8 billion each year by reducing crime-related costs.

College

• Male college graduates earn 60% more than students with high school diplomas

• female college graduates earn 90% more than students with high school diplomas

Getting into College

• NC State• GPA 4.19• GPA 3.77• SAT 1745

• Chapel Hill• Average GPA was 4.47

• NC Central• 2.8

• GPA• 4.0 100• 3.0 90• 2.0 80• 1.0 70• 0 below 70

How Do I become a Successful Student?

Mrs. Dorencamp

Civics and Economics

How Do I Become Successful?

• YOU have to want to be successful to be successful– If you don’t want to

succeed, you wont– You have to do the

things it takes to be successful.

How Do I Become Successful

• The power of positive thinking– Learning isn’t just

going to school, it’s a frame of mind

– If you think “This is going to suck”, it is going to.

How Do I Become Successful?

• Rise to the challenge– Never accept

mediocre– Never accept anything

less than your best.

How Do I Become Successful?

• Leave your attitude at the door– One attitude can

quickly become many– Don’t bring an attitude

or negative energy with you to class

How Do I Become Successful

• Take notes, even if you don’t have to.– Set up paper– Take notes– Apply notes– Reflect

How Do I Become Successful

• If you work with your teacher, they will be more willing to work with you.– Sit in Front– Lean Forward– Ask Questions– Nod Your Head– Talk to Your Teacher

How Do I Become Successful?

• Study• Study• Study• Study• Study• Study• Study• Study

• Do Your Work• Do Your Work• Do Your Work• Do Your Work• Do Your Work• Do Your Work• Do Your Work• Do Your Work