According to National
Center for Education Statistics, the total drop out rates for the whole United
States in 2010 is 7.4%. The world, the society and even the school have
declared that the first step of success is to be educated, people without
education are known as ignorant, least ethical and a moral hazard. If people
have an opportunity to go to school, why do they drop out? That is like they
are giving up their chance to become successful. There are many deal breakers
for people who drop out of school. The two deal breakers I think it’s very
common are money, and language barriers.
Money is a very
important deal breaker for a student dropout of school. Everything in the world
has its price, if you don’t have enough money to just survive, how can you go
to school and be educated. Many of the students in junior college are really
intelligent, they are qualified and able to get into many UC schools, but
because they can’t pay for their tuition, they have to go to a college to
continue their education. Some people can’t even have two meals a day, a place
to sleep and walk miles to school everyday. Money matters a lot to them; they
will put education behind just to get money to survive. I had a friend, who has
to work days and nights to help the family out, and she has hard time paying
for her tuition. She is not qualified for financial aid because her father made
more than $5,000 a month, but she has 6 siblings and her mother is a housewife.
The whole family depends on her father’s wage. If she didn’t work, she couldn’t
pay for her tuition and gas to go to school. She told me, if she got fired she
would not make it to school.
Language barrier:
The second deal breaker of dropping out of
school is language barrier. Many of the new immigrants or international
students have is language barrier. Sitting in a classroom with 15 other English-speaking
students, and they are the only ones who don’t know how to speak English really
makes it difficult to catch up with the class. As a new immigrant to the country,
I meet a lot of immigrants who just drop out of school because of the language
barriers. They don’t understand what the teacher said in class, they are too
shy to ask the classmates for help and they failed some classes just because of
language barrier.
There may have plenty
different of deal breakers to drop out of school, and we all have problems
everyday. It’s easy to give up, but hard to continue. If we at least to try to
continue, we will be successful.
For people who have
concerns about money, they can find a part time job close to their house or go
to career center at school and ask for help. There are have many scholarships
offered at our school. Students should not be afraid to send out applications
and get rewarded for continuing with school and doing a good job in class.
Language barriers are a long time fight; it is all on the individual. Spend
more time on reading, talking to the professor for help and visit the English
center for help.
In my opinion, you are very well disclosing the subject of the deal breakers. In this essay I found some issues that I have to solve practically every day because I am also an immigrant. We [immigrants] all know that here [in the US] we come for a better life. So, in order to achieve this goal, people need to work hard. Immigrants need to understand that in a new country can be problems like work and money. However, people who have a purpose in life should be strong. And they always find the best strategies such as described in this essay.
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