Drop Out

        After highschool many students are excited and ready to go to college. To get out and be on their own, living in the real world. What most of them do not know is that college is no what in the park. It's hard, stressful and expensive. Not everyone makes it through college, some students drop out after their first year or even first semester.
         There are many reason why students drop out of college. The first reason can be the cost of the schooling. Schooling seems to be getting more and more expensive as the years go on; and some students just can not afford to pay that much money, so they feel that their only option is to drop out because they can not afford to pay for it. Another reson a student may drop out of college is because thet have bad grades. When a student gets bad grades they may get frustrated and feel they can not do it, so they just quit and give up and drop out. Finally, another reason why students may drop out of college is their stress level. With working, and having a social life, going to class and doing homework and sometimes a relationship can be too much for a student to deal with all at once. So they might feel they need to "take a break" from school and in doing so they never go back to persue their education. Those are just a few reasons why students drop out of college. There are many more reasons such as failed relationships, and homesickness.
          With students droping out there are also effects of dropping out on both the individual and the economy. Dropping out of college can really lower the individuals self-asteem and make them feel stupid or like a quitter for the rest of their life. They also will most likely not get a good paying job or be able to support themselves or their family. They may also not have that good of health or dental insurance for themselves or their family is they have one Dropping out of school also affects the econonmy we live in. Dropping out of college makes a major loss in income tax for the government, up to $60,000 per drop out, and it takes more money out of the working classes pockets to give the government money to give those types of people food stamps or WIC, and medicade and other health care expenses the government supplies for those people.
        These are some of the resons why many college students drop out of school, and the affects of dropping out of school on both the individual and the community.