Why Do Students Drop Out of School?

School drop-out rates are a worrying phenomenon. They have an impact not only on the individual but on the education system and society in general as well. A study conducted in this area states that: “People’s social opportunities increasingly depend on their skills, their human capital, their ability to obtain, handle, and interpret information, and to use and acquire knowledge. These abilities are, in turn, influenced by more established and perhaps less attractive factors, such as property, income, gender, race, physical constitution, and nationality, etc.”  -Fernández, Mena and Riviere, 2010- School drop-outs and their transition to the working world School…