Failure and school leaver

Introduction:
The educational environment is in constant progress and development, the society plays a significant part in these changes.
In recent years we have much interested in making improvements in the education system and the training of teachers; however this does not do much good if it continues to increase the percentage of drop-outs.
School drop-outs, as well as being a problem that seriously affects society, causes high costs.
Education is a more important issue, as Miguel Rojas says: "Education is the gown to attend the celebration of life"
Miguel Rojas Sánchez (Coscomatepec, Mexico). Drawn from the Reader's Digest (June 2001). Thanks to the collaboration of E.P.R.
The purpose of my essay is to show the main challenge of education should be to avoid failure or dropout, show what are the main factors contributing to this and affects how this in different areas. For this, I use information obtained in studies, books and actual statistics.
When we talk about dropout we refer to the abandonment that the student's courses or career makes that has joined, or definitive or temporary, voluntary or forced suspension of the study.
School failure is the fact of not achieving the mandatory minimum academic title of an educational system.
The consequences of school drop-outs cause great harm to society. Those who drop out of school are more prone to unemployment, have more chance of being poor and end up in prison.
"The best response to the economic crisis and youth unemployment is to ensure that young people can acquire the relevant training and basic skills needed to enter the working world with self-confidence. It is essential to provide developing alternatives to youth in general, and in particular young women, so is educate and thus acquire the skills
that allow them to earn a living, to live with dignity and to contribute to the communities and societies to which they belong", (Irina Bokova, (25/10/12), newspaper “El Mundo”)
With respect to who are responsible for the drop-out and school failure, we do not know who is to blame for the problems of lack of school readiness; many blame the teachers, others, the schools and the educational system, and even to the social environment.
The educational system has many ups and downs, so you need a good reform. This is the participation of the parents, who are responsible for is necessary also and it is essential that they are involved in their children's education.
In my opinion, the participation of parents is crucial for success in the education of their children, and not only the work of the teacher. I think that parents should turn off the television and read to their children. Family collaboration is very important.
Many studies have shown that children perform better its homework when teachers and families working together to help children learn.
We dont know what is the reason for the high rate of school drop-outs. Some of the factors that can cause this are: the educational and cultural level of the family, lack of family involvement in the academic life of the student, family disintegration, ineffective teachers, the atmosphere in the school, the money factor...
We can also think that students drop out of school because the school system does not like them or because they do not feel motivated.
In short, some 115 million children do not attend primary school, 18 per cent of the world
population in school age.

Relevant data from different areas:
We start commenting on the situation in Europe, focusing on Spain, which is the leading country in the European Union in early school leaving rate of 21.9% of young people between 18 and 24 years who have left the education system prematurely having completed the first cycle of secondary as much. The percentage doubles the Community average. If it's any comfort, the rate has been falling in recent years.
In the Spanish case, refers to school failure to refer to those who do not obtain the final title of the compulsory secondary education (ESO)
The proportion of school failure is much higher among boys than among girls. We also see a big gap between the different autonomous communities.
The only autonomous community with greater media to that of the European Union is Basque country, with a 9.9; two other autonomous communities were much approaching European levels is Cantabria (12.1%) and Navarra (12.9%).
Starting from there occurs a negative jump. The lists of Spanish autonomous communities with the worst averages are Canarias (27.5%), Andalusia (28.7%), Extremadura (29.2%) and Balearic Islands (29.8%). The autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla exceed far beyond that border, with 33.3 %.
Along with Spain, the countries of the European Union with the highest rate of school failure are Malta (20.4%), Romania (18.1%), Portugal (17.4%) and Italy (15%). At the
opposite end, lower proportions of early school leaving are recorded in Croatia (5.4%), Czech Republic (5.5%) and Lithuania (5.9%).
In Spain there are three basic programs against school failure: curricular diversification, compensatory education and Social guarantee.
Finland is the country with the world's best educational system. 71% of its inhabitants obtained a university degree.
One of the causes of this may be the economic facilities that this country offers to education.
Compulsory education is free in all of its concepts, from material to dining expenses, even the transportation in some cases. University studies are also free of charge, including those intended for adults, counting with a job, want a recycled or simply to improve their training. In addition there is a system of high aid to students, including adults.
We go now to the Nordic countries, which stand out their quality in education.
We must not forget that Finland also enjoys an educational system adequate, especially in primary and secondary education.
Unlike Spain, the schooling occurs at age 7. Up to 7 years old are in kindergartens, where it intends to fundamentally is that much to play and do exercise.
Another feature of the Finnish system is the personal attention they devoted to each child, and especially to those who go late. Students who are lagging have a personal tutor and kinds of support according to your needs.
The education system pays much attention from the beginning to the evolution of the student, trying to solve academic problems in the early years of schooling, which is easier.
Another advantage of the Finnish system is the integrated work of all levels of the educational system. There are no large differentiations in the transition from preschool to primary, and this to secondary.
Finally, say that the Professor is very well appreciated.
Now we go to another extreme, America. We started talking about United States, which currently the highest rate of school drop-outs has known worldwide.
If this index does not improve, it can severely affect the status of leadership in which the country is located.
It is essential to improve the U.S. education system, and to start from the bass, from the pre-school to University, if we want to stop the decline of American education.
According to reports, less than fifty percent of American high school students graduated. In addition, more than one million students annually leave school.
With regard to the universities, half of young people who begin to study a profession, not just.
United States has fallen in a decade the number of college graduates, has gone from being
in second place, to deal with the number eleven.
American students are among the worst prepared for the industrialized world. Their general culture and ability to read and write is "mediocre" compared with other European and Asian countries.
Also it is known that students entering the University are mostly not sufficiently prepared to leave high school to be able to pursue a college degree.
The dropout problem is worrisome not only in the United States, is present in almost all countries of the world, but in some places it affects to a greater extent than in others.
Another country to cite here is Latin America, which also has very high rates of school drop-outs.
Many Latin American young people drop out of school before the l2 years, even without finishing primary education.
It seems that be the reasons for dropout in Latin America is due to the inadequacy of income in households and various deficits of material well-being of children and adolescents from poor strata.
Despite positive advances given schooling, in Latin America and the Caribbean are 2.7 million children excluded from primary education and 1.7 million teenagers out of school in secondary education.
In Latin American countries the proportion of young people who do not have access to
education is growing.
In Colombia, for example, most of the young people from well-to-do families have access to the first cycle of secondary education, but only about half of young people from poor families have that opportunity.
In Brazil, 45% of young people from rural regions have not completed the first cycle of secondary education.
Finally, learn about the school situation in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and
Western, these areas present the worst results in overall rates and school enrolment of
girls. Around 23 million of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 21 million in the countries of South and West Asia.
In the countries of South and East Asia, the number of children attending school is greater than it ever was, but a lot of them leave the classrooms before the end of primary education, by which this region of the planet continues registering the highest proportion of children out of school worldwide.
It is estimated that the number of children out of school age attend primary education amounted to 100 million, of which three quarters live in countries of sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and West Asia.
In West Asia, the number of children out of school declined by 20%. However, the number of African children out of school has increased in the same proportion.

Conclusion:
Now that I know the problem, and what are the main causes and factors that cause it, I think that the great challenge is to eradicate the actions that lead to it. One of the main factors is to change the attitude of the student, but this is very important the role of the institution, which should motivate the students to continue their studies.
The institutions must create programs of study which called the attention of the students, and teachers should guide students in the performance of their studies.
The school career, is very important in students since it is this occurs where the social development of students.
As said Juan Jimenez Castle in his book functional illiteracy and school failure: "We have to conceive to the professor as transformative intellectual, that far from educating the young for its adaptation in the status quo, it helps to connect the school with the areas of control and power."
It is important that both teachers and professionals from the education center interested in students, listening to their problems, interests and needs. I think that you should create strategies, techniques and guidance programs, which lead to the change of attitude and motivation improvement.
In my opinion, the students is mostly intelligent, only a change in mentality, is missing if this is achieved, pupils realize their actions and think better things.
Finally say that the improvement in the educational system not only is important for future students, but for the future in the country which will be in the hands of
professionals that has been able to create.

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