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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well over half are either in ESOL or are Hispanic https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/07/montgomery-co-public-schools-have-a-dropout-problem-heres-why/[/quote]

Well I guest the response to this topic says it: who cares?

I am not being sarcastic. I truly believe that if these students and/or their families do not care, others should not (yes, SHOULD not - or at least PUBLIC RESOURCES should not be used to deal with this).[/quote]

They care, but often they are facing very immediate economic needs that can’t wait two to three years to address. A third income earner can make the difference between rent or eviction, vegetables and fruit or malnutrition. This was not an unusual pattern in white immigrant families two generations ago. My XH’s grandmother left school at 15 to work FT in a store. Her sacrifice made it possible for the family to survive and her younger siblings to graduate HS. T[/quote]when I was in mcps I went to school with very poor immigrants from South Asia . They managed to not only bot drop out they  also got into Ivy League colleges [/quote]

Good for them! But what does that have to do with other people with different experiences?

My grandfather had to drop out of high school to go to work, too. That would have been 1917 or 1918. He got his GED later, through night school.[/quote]there were far fewer social services then than now . I’m high school I had all sorts of extracurricular activities and worked 15 hours a week. My father grew up dirt poor  in Roxbury . Zero social welfare benefits and he worked nearly fulll time in high school and got a full ride scholarship to northeastern . It can be done if people don’t excuse failure [/quote]

Social services aren’t always available to these students, especially those who are undocumented.[/quote]

Are you kidding?? Do you even live in Montgomery County?

There are PLENTY of social services available for undocumented immigrants.  [/quote]

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