There has been a lack of information and research as to the reasons
students did not graduate from high school with a diploma, or GED certificate, or
certificate of completion, even though they were given the opportunity to attend
an alternative drop-out or credit recovery program. This study identified the
reasons why some students failed to complete an alternative education program
in a K-12 school district in Texas. Of the 29 former PACE students failing to
graduate with either a diploma or GED certificate that participated in this
research, a little less than half either quit the program or were administratively
dropped because they felt that earning money from their job was more important
than graduating from high school. Each of the others had this excuse as well as
many other excuses for not graduating.
Three inter-locking conclusions were reached by the researcher after
interviewing 29 of the students that did not complete the PACE program. The
first conclusion was that students did not understand the value of a high school diploma at the time they were attending PACE. The second was that money,
even in the form of a minimum wage job, was more important than an education.
The final conclusion was that each student did not have a plan for their life
beyond the coming evening or weekend. All students that failed to graduate or
earn a GED had at least one of these misconceptions, while most had two, and
a few had all three.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/4828 |
| Date | 25 April 2007 |
| Creators | Inman, Rex Wayne, Sr. |
| Contributors | Slater, Robert O. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 226516 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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