What are the consequences that Virginia, the United States, and dropouts face if a large percentage of students dropout?
Seeing that several students are dropping out of high school, one can observe the disadvantages of maintaining a life without a high school diploma. These consequences, created by high school dropouts eventually harm the United States’ economy, high schools, and individuals. Increasing the dropout rate will cause the United States’ economy to decrease in wealth and support, such as: providing fewer benefits for those who have health insurance, lowering both federal and tax revenues, downturns on both house and car sales, lessening the number of businesses, and making the U.S. less competitive with other countries; according to Alliance for Excellent Education. These examples will affect the United States economy due to an increasing number of individuals who are unable to properly support themselves and their families. Consequences that impact high schools include having to create more and multiple plans to rebuild the graduation rate and obtaining more federal school improvement funding (which might be used in other areas of education), based on Alliance for Excellent Education. This impacts high schools throughout the United States because a certain period of the duration of the school year will be focused on persuading students to finish high school and receive a high school diploma and/or creating multiple additional classes to support those students who are falling behind, as well as creating additional (future) ramifications. Finally, the disadvantages of leaving school damage a dropout’s life in many areas such as: earning less than $9,000 annually compared to high school graduates, having limited job opportunities, working more work hours than an average adult, having a higher chance of being a part of a crime, an increase of risk of unemployment, and a higher chance of becoming a single parent as an adolescent, according to Alliance for Excellent Education, National Education Association, Child Trends, and seattlepi. All of these risks may deeply impact individuals who dropout because one would suffer trying to provide themselves and others. The disadvantages formed by high school dropouts eventually harms the United States’ economy, as well as high schools, and individuals.