There are people today who watch the new on the regular
basis. A huge topic on the news today is the African American dropout rates
that are ragging daily. I know for a fact that this topic is important to
several people in society because of the post I’ve been reading, the interviews
I’ve read, as well as the video clips I’ve saw. I believe that something is
going to have to happen based on the number of students who dropped out of
school or the ones who want to drop out of school. It’s not a good look on our country
as a whole. I hope and pray something will change and that this paper would change
the life of someone.
This topic is extremely important in today’s society. After hearing about the drastic number of
students, mainly African Americans who have dropped out, this topic has really
touched me in several ways. For instance, I’m going off to college in less than
three months majoring in education. As many people may have noticed, the dropout
rates are very important to the education world. I can remember the first time
telling a teacher what I was going to college majoring in. She told me that
teaching isn’t an easy task because the board is becoming very strict because
of the dropout rates that are raging by the day. After hearing that, I grew
interest in this problem and I believed this was the perfect job for me. I
state this because for one, I love children of all ages and for two, I believe
my job is to change the world by dealing with children. I also believe that
there are multiple factors that lead students to want to dropout and so there
for I believe it’s my job to help those because I feel where they’re coming
from. I’m feel their pain because I was born in Chicago and my neighborhood was
full of students who has dropped out of school at an early age for several
reason. Also, I have family members who has
dropped out of school as well. After hearing that from the teacher, seeing
thing on the web, and hearing things on the news, I feel that this is the task
that I was put on this earth to do.
In this paper I would argue that there’s a change that
will have to take place. I say this because I believe this because there’s a
huge problem that the percentage of African-American dropout rates is over 50%.
This means half of the African-American population has dropped out of school.
This leads to not being able to find jobs, provide for their family, and surviving
in this world known as survival of the fittest. This
paper will not focus on the factors of science. There’s no need to talk about
science because it does not relate to the topic of education.
There’s a number of people that could benefit from the
information provided on this specific topic. For instance, some people this
topic can relate to would be teachers. I believe this topic would touch
teachers because hopefully they will realize that children depend on them. For
example, students depend on teachers for help on their work, school related
problems, and things as such. Also, I believe that black families could also
benefit from this topic because they could see the different things that could
cause dropouts such as where they family live, the income of their family, and
how close their family is to one another. Lastly, this topic could reach out to
several school boards. I say this because when school realize the different
reasons why student tend to dropout, they could strategize how to stop or lower
the dropout rates of students.
There are several sources that I would use that would be
relevant to my paper. For example, I plan to interview at least three people.
While in the interview I plan to record them by voice on my phone. Also, I would
do a survey of people who has not dropped out of as well as those who has
dropped out of school. I believe that both the interviews and the surveys will show
results that seem to be accurate. Also, I would use both the interviews and the
surveys in the paper to support my topic and argument. Lastly, the sources that
I found will also be added into my paper as back up and support as well.
