The College Dropout Boom from ricoshenk's blog

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Today, all developed countries have the easier access to the higher education than it was in the past. Many things have changed and colleges as well as other institutional affiliations do not close their doors in front of women, Blacks, Latinos, and international students. Despite the fact of nearly complete accessibility, the college dropout boom can be observed that can be caused by several reasons, which can be combined in two groups: financial and psychological.

The financial side of this issue is obvious and needs to be solved by the government or at least somehow improved. The vast majority of college dropouts are from families with a low financial income. Even though students from poor families enter colleges, the graduation rate among such students remains low. The reasons for such results may vary and have different background. Some students simply cannot afford finishing college because they have no opportunity to combine studying with the full-time job. Due to various reasons, some students and their families cannot cover the tuition bills by themselves. In fact, they can loan the needed sum of money, but usually it implies few years of debt and not every family have an opportunity to pay it in time or over the period of few years. Another interesting fact is the access to colleges is not completely fair, and obviously, students with low income cannot enter rich colleges that have resources to pay good scholarship or determine the future place of work. From this point of view, average colleges cannot promise students their future success because they have limited resources, and therefore, cannot offer the wide range of majors. Thus, some students decide to apply for some average job and plan to graduate one day in the future.

The psychological side of the dropout college boom has more perspectives to look at it, for example, personal attitude, family, fear or depression, etc. In fact, family relations play a significant role in the conscious of students. Family members, especially parents, should always be supportive but also constantly remind their children about the necessity to study hard. If parents fail to explain the importance of studying, their children might terminate education because they do not realize how it may reflect on their future careers. Social environment also plays a significant role in the willing to get a higher education. If the social area of personal environment, for example friends are negatively oriented, it may affect the decision to continue education or not. Moreover, the emotional aspect in the college plays a significant role in the whole process. Sometimes, low-income students do not feel that they belong there or do not like to study. These factors may lead to a serious depression and cause the unwillingness to study further. In such cases, students leave colleges assuring themselves and other people that they will continue studying in the future to graduation.

Unfortunately, very few college dropouts decide to return and finish their education since they get a job right after quitting and already have some decent outcome. In such cases, people got ‘trapped’ because they are in a constant fear of losing their jobs and the lack of degree makes impossible for them to aspire to the better position. This issue may cause more psychological problems because of a constant feel of regret that may lead to a major depression. On the other hand, some students choose a more simple way and are satisfied with an average job and an average income since serious positions require more efforts and time to achieve high goals. Taking into account abovementioned, one can say that reasons for the college dropout boom always imply personal attitude towards self-education and life in general.

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Added Jun 17 '21, 12:09PM

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