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    do to free education. When my grandmother was just a little child she had to drop out of school at 13! She did it so she can work and support her family she worked day and night to support her struggling family. She went back to school at 15 and had to drop out again at 17. She had my mom at 21 and made sure my mother went to school and never dropped out and had her life. Do to free education kids don’t have to drop out of school to support their families that can’t pay for school. The American Gift

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    high school should be mandatory for students at least till there are 18, and not to drop-out. As one can see in the past staying in school was mandatory and people were looked down if one did not finish school. Now in days’ students are quick to drop out and more parents are allowing it to happen. The rate of students who attend school and drop- out is tremendously high. As a student who thought about dropping out due to many encounters in life, but chose to stay in school and get an education changed

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    Student Loan Problem

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    students who do not finish college often have the most problems with paying off their outstanding loans. She shows that despite the fact that drop-outs tend to have lower student loan balances, they are more likely to miss payments compared to their degreed counterparts. The article also presents a way to avoid this problem and a plan for how students can pay loans back without missing payments. According to the article, 28% of students who borrow money to attend college do not have degrees. Presumably

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    College Education After graduating high school, several students decide to go off to college while many others find want to take a break from school, then continue later on. Sometimes, there are people that have entity approach intelligence where they believe that college is not for them and therefore find something else to do, so they look for jobs and decide to work. They believe that if they try to get into this new environment, they will not even achieve anything; therefore, they do not even

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    The Case Against College, a paper written by Linda Lee, talks about the disadvantages of college, and how she doesn’t believe that college is worth it. She provides many good points pertaining to why she believes college isn’t worth it, such as providing statistics of the amount of people who get bachelor degrees or higher. She explains that as her son was going to college, she soon asked herself if he was really getting $1,000 a week's worth of education. Although Linda Lee has many good points

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    Why Community college should not be free There are many reasons community college should not be free. First of all, if community college is free for two years commitment levels of students will drop. Also there will be less money for facilities. The last reason why they should not offer free community college in California is that instead of helping college students the government should focus on helping public education K-12. Community college should not be free because it can affect California

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    there are more students who drop out of college than graduate. Throughout high school we were taught the advantages of a college degree and why it is so important. So what is the cause behind the increase falling out of young adults in higher institutions? There can be many reasons why someone chooses to drop out of college. One of the main reasons could be an individual’s financial situation, though that may be the case there are many opportunities such as, college grants and scholarships. In

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    Doctoral Persistence

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    ambitious to attend college and when the moment finally comes, you have to drop-out because you are facing many obstacles that aren’t allowing you to pursue your dreams? Well, I have a family member who was anxious to attend college and later on dropped out due to the fact that she was having a baby which stopped her from doing many things. She had the responsibility of being a full-time mother and also a full-time worker to provide for her needs and her child's needs. In reality, college impacts people

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    classrooms because they prefer the nonacademic characteristics of education such as sports, clubs, or art programs. A student’s boredom in high school relates to STEM educational programs in college because an individual’s experience in high school may affect his or her selection of a major in a community college or university. If someone still

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