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According to the US BLS, people who do not have a high school degree/GED have been the top-ranked for unemployment when partitioned by education over the past d
by pnathan 16y ago
According to the US BLS, people who do not have a high school degree/GED have been the top-ranked for unemployment when partitioned by education over the past decade. The difference has ranged from 5-10% higher unemployment than the mean unemployment.
I dug those stats out of the BLS site myself.
While I think we can all recognize the problems with the education system, it is absolutely poor advice to recommend dropping out of high school. The statistics are brutally against it.
- mhb 16y agoThat statistic is not compelling because one might suspect that the people who do not have a HS degree/GED would be top-ranked for unemployment even if they had acquired those qualifications.
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- bugsy 16y agoIt also ignores the effect of drop outs like me that have founded companies that have created hundreds of good paying jobs. But that's all counted as 1 drop out = 1 job. If I hadn't dropped out and was forced to stay in the useless hell hole that is public high school education, I would have killed myself or others and none of these jobs would exist. Mine is not an isolated story either, here is a list of drop outs all should take a look at before advocating that talented kids should be forced to suffer the abuse that is state school institutionalization: http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/lists/dropouts.html http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/lists/dropouts.html Klebold and Harris would be designing video games today and have people working for their firm if they had dropped out of high school instead of staying and suffering abuse from violent bullies and petty ignorant teachers at Columbine High School.