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Mexican American High School Dropouts: A Look At Nine Personal Attributes That Place Students At Risk, Oscar A. Rico
Mexican American High School Dropouts: A Look At Nine Personal Attributes That Place Students At Risk, Oscar A. Rico
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This project examines nine attributes pertinent to Mexican Americans and the decision that many of them take to drop out of school prematurely. Millions of Mexican American students drop out of school every year in this country. For many of these students dropping out of school usually represents entering a workforce an a society that they will be unprepared to encounter. Dropouts will face increased levels of poverty, incarceration, unemployment along with many other ailments.
This project presents dropping out not as a single event in which a student decides to endure such conditions inexplicably from one day to the …