This document discusses Philadelphia's high school dropout crisis. It notes that 45% of students in some neighborhoods drop out of high school, often due to factors like poverty, unsafe home environments, and lack of support. Dropping out has negative consequences as it is associated with higher rates of crime, poverty, reliance on government assistance, and lower quality of life in communities. Reducing the dropout rate could thus help break cycles of poverty, crime, and burden on taxpayers.

1. DROPOUT
CITY
Philadelphia’s High School Dropout Crisis
by
Shareesa Bollers & Moriah Taylor

2. “The most important motive for
work in school and in life is pleasure
in work, pleasure in its result, and
the knowledge of the value of the
result to the community.”
-Albert Einstein

3. 45%

4. ''I TOOK A ONE-DAY BREAK
AND THAT WAS IT,'' HE SAID.
''THAT ONE DAY
DETERMINED THE REST OF
MY SCHOOL YEAR.''

5. WHY?
poor preparation for high school
repeating grades
unsafe home environment
lack of adult attention
poverty

7. COMMONALITY?
poverty
People of lower income dropout of high school.
Harrowgate, Richmond, Kensington, Elmwood,
Kingsessing, Schuylkill
the poorest
most at risk to drop out

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9. 7%

10. WHEN?

11. LIFE AFTER DROPPING OUT
“I now have my third temporary job and
feel that people don’t understand what I
am able to do. I look at myself in two
different ways. On the one hand, I feel like
a loser, a dropout.”

12. African Americans and Latinos are more likely
to drop out
drop outs are more likely to:
commit crimes
live in poverty

14. IT’S A CYCLE
This keeps the African American and Latino
population in a state of never ending poverty.
This poverty ensures that they continue to be
the minority in receiving jobs that require atleast
4 years of college.

15. WEST PHILADELPHIA HS

16. SOCIETY
dropouts are more likely to comit crimes
depend on goverment handouts
more likely to live in poverty

17. DROPOUTS & CRIME
A 10% increase in graduation would
reduce homicide and assaults about
20%.

19. COMMUNITIES
Dropouts reduce the quality of living in communities
violence
poverty
Your taxes pay for government programs

20. quot;Jefferson thought schools would produce free men:
we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. quot;
Barber, Benjamin R.