High School Dropouts

Every year, 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That’s a student every 26 seconds- or 6,000 a day. And more than a quarter of high school freshmen fail to graduate from high school on time. It’s been known for years that young people who do not earn a high school diploma face many more problems later in life than people who graduate. Why has this become such a problem?