I found 1 in 10 schools are ‘dropout factories’ on my yahoo homepage. Not surprisingly – The highest concentration of dropout factories is in large cities or high-poverty rural areas in the South and Southwest. Most have high proportions of minority students. These schools are tougher to turn around, because their students face challenges well beyond the academic ones — the need to work as well as go to school, for example, or a need for social services.
A spokesman for South Carolina’s Department of Education has tried to explain this saying – “Part of the problem we’ve had here is we live in a state that culturally and traditionally has not valued a high school education” – I do not think it is about valuing education – it is about the children – and their parents – thinking about what that education gives in turn, in the long run, and finding almost nothing. Atleast nothing worth the effort of going to school everyday under challenging personal circumstances. Added to that is the pressure from schools that tend to grades and scores above a more intrinsic capability and understanding. And this article here, is about America, not India.