Where The Problems Lie
It is not uncommon for us to think the worst of students who drop out of schools. The most common nuances are that the teen is addicted to some sort of drugs or he or she is expecting a baby. And so the list goes on; various assumptions that put the blame solely on the teens who dropped out of school. What we don’t realize is that these teens may have reasons of their own—reasons that cannot be ignored; and reasons that they have no control over.
Basically, the rants of the teens who drop out of school is that the school they are studying in have an ineffective system, or the school itself has a different “feel”. Another reason, they claim, is their learning style which is not being addressed by the teacher or the professor. Passive instructional strategies are also among the reasons they cited, as well as their fear of student violence.
If you will look into these reasons, you will see that most, if not all, are directly related to the school and the school environment. In other words, the students find it difficult to deal with the school system and the school environment, so they opt to stay out of school.
While we should not tolerate this kind of reasoning, we should at least look into how true and how real these situations are for these students. We may not realize it, but there is actually a possibility that the schools are not responding to the needs of the students by not providing a safe and healthy environment for them, where they may study and learn and concentrate well. If that’s the case, then we have a problem. But at least, we now know what the problem is, so it would be easier to solve it henceforth.
