His drunken uncle calls him lazy and wants him to drop out of school.
But others may decide that it is better to drop out of school as soon as possible.
Violence, and its threat, is one of the key factors forcing girls to drop out of school.
That will mean girls will spend longer walking to fetch water which could encourage them to drop out of school and bear children earlier.
Peter Thiel is free to spend his money the way he wants and those teenagers are free to accept the offer to drop out of school.
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Visions of my daughter withdrawing the money on her 18th birthday and using it to drop out of school or join a cult flashed through my mind.
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Today, students from low-income families are five times as likely to drop out of school as students from high-income families, according to data from the Department of Education.
When dads are not around, young people are more likely to drop out of school, use drugs, be involved in the criminal justice system, and become young parents themselves.
The prospect of a higher wage encourages people to drop out of school and participate in the labor market (where they might crowd out those who are even less productive).
Take a moment to listen to the story of Setraniona, who regularly suffered from water-borne diseases and had to drop out of school as a child before completing her education.
But his take-home pay has fallen by nearly a third and the thought that his brother may have to drop out of school so he can help the family gnaws at Mr. Zhang.
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Before you accuse me of calling for millions of students to drop out of school, let me make a few things clear: First, if you have viable alternative, dropping out may be the best option for you.
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Without water 'on tap' economies can't get going, children are more likely to drop out of school or just not attend in the first place and hospitals find it virtually impossible to cope with the spread of disease and infections.
Unfortunately, increased minimum wages induce some teenagers to drop out of high school and take a job.
Boys, meanwhile, are more likely to drop out of high school than girls.
According to the study, children growing up in one-parent homes are 16% more likely to drop out of high school.
After seeing him in court, though, Schreier said she believes Holmes suffered a psychotic breakdown as recently as this spring, triggering his decision to drop out of graduate school, start buying weapons and launch his attack amid paranoid delusions, she said.
It is estimated that every year about 7 million children fail to attend school or drop out of school before completing primary education, thus about 60 million Bangladeshis are functionally illiterate.
But a growing body of evidence suggests that her basic points are right: children of divorce are more likely to have problems at school, to drop out of education and to have difficult relationships than those who lose a parent through death or whose parents' marriage survives.
The doctors say her prognosis looks good, but she has had to drop out of her grad school program for the semester.
Data on the extent to which students drop out of school before receiving a high school diploma also correlate with measures of family income and parental education.
If you feel that it would be better for you to follow your entrepreneur dreams and drop out of school or not go to college just for this time period, then do it.
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The government aims to reduce the number of rural students who drop out or migrate to urban areas because of village school closures and mergers, China Daily reports.
They never want to accept responsibility for kids who drop out of school but they're the first in line to claim credit for the kids who wind up in the Ivy League.
In addition to these, the nomadic lifestyle of herder families makes the children, particularly the boys, drop out of school to assist the family.
As my grades started to drop I decided to drop out rather than ruin my hopes of doing well in school.
Families may not be able to afford school books or uniforms, so their children drop out of school.
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Children of single parents are much more likely to experience childhood poverty, become teenage parents, and drop out of school.
"I know that nine little children did not walk through a schoolhouse door in Little Rock so that we could stand by and let our children drop out of school and turn to gangs for the support they are not getting elsewhere, " he said accusingly.
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