Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future

graduation rates are about 20 percent higher for participants than similar peersn (Amy
Buffenbarger 2011).
Some after school programs such as tutoring should promote academic excellence. Other after school
programs should promote life skills, such as cooking and sewing.
Another step in getting the drop-out rates to decrease is bettering the involvement of parents in
students‘ education. School should not depend on students to send report cards and notices home. The
schools should personally email, call, or mail notices home that is related to meetings and report cards.
When the parents get more involved with the schools the parents will gain trust and have higher
expectations in their children‘s education. When students realize that their parents care they would feel
more motivated to reach their parent‘s higher expectation.
We should want our children to have better education. It is not fair that we short change students
of the minority. What make things worse is that children of a minority are not short change by just
economics, but also by themselves and their parents. It is time that we encourage academic excellence,
sports, after school activities. It is time that we get the parents more involved and make them responsible
for their children education. These drop-out rates can hurt the United States‘ economy in the long run. It
is time to make a smatter America!
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