So here's my idea: Why not ask students about skipping school using an established research tool that already has access to a representative sampling of the nation's middle and high school students?
Talk to your child. And by becoming involved, you can get an early indication of any problems your teen may be having, and can be in a position to help him to work with the school or the teacher to solve the problem.
Fear of violence in or on the way to school. Kevin Corcoran, program director for the Lumina Foundationa nonprofit organization focused on improving the nation's higher education outcomes, said he wasn't aware of evidence that there was a significant difference in community college graduate parents' beliefs about the importance of higher education when compared with parents with four-year degrees.
Statistics show that children who start skipping school are at high risk of dropping out of high school and ending up struggling through life.
Frankly, I would love to see the NCAA put in a rule that for every student that goes pro early, the school loses that scholarship the kid is receiving for what would have been the rest of his academic career.
Why was I able to skip all of those days and still be successful? What Get Schooled's mall sample doesn't capture are students who quit school entirely to help care for family members or to support themselves.
Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters theatlantic. September 17, at pm Apps4u From observation, I have a theory that kids skip school for several reasons.
Advertisement Continue reading the main story Some of the resulting projects include automated wake-up calls from athletes and other celebrities to about 30, at-risk students, urging them to go to school. And what can we do to get them to come back to class?
Whenever I hear about college freshmen basketball or football players putting their names in for a "hardship draft" deciding that going pro beats completing their education, you have to wonder about the job that their coaches are not doing, and what kind of signal it sends.