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Happy Child, Great Career and a
Promising Future
The reality about your child’s future, might
shock you!
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Happy Child, Great Career and a Promising
Future
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Areas Covered
• Your child’s chances of survival in this new economy
• The deadly truth about your child’s future
• How your child is at risk
• How you can prevent these risks
• Solutions on how to change your child’s future
• A word from our sponsor
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The New Economy
• The economy is going through the most drastic change in 60 years
• Not a phase or a trend but a new way of life
• Your family, child’s career and future…are ALL at risk
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What is this new economy?
• The age of a SURE income or job after high school is over
• More businesses are outsourcing
• Employers now have the choice to select the best candidate for a job from anywhere in the world
• Your child might be left UNEMPLOYED
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What is currently happening?
• Unemployment rates for high school graduates has INCREASED from 17.5% in 2007 to 29.9% in 2012
• Underemployment rates
for high school graduates has INCREASED from 29.4% in 2007 to 51.5% in 2012
51.5%
21.9% 29.4%
17.5%
Source: Economic Policy Institute
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What about the dropouts?
30% of the Unemployed are High School Dropout
30%
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It gets worst...
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice • 56% of federal inmates are
dropouts • 67% of state inmates are
dropouts • 69% of local jail inmates are
dropouts
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Crime committed by prisoners
• 1 violent crime every 22 seconds • 1 robbery every 1.3 minutes • 1 rape every 5.8 minutes • 1 murder every 34 minutes
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996 FBI Uniform Crime Report 2000
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Who do criminals ATTACK?
• Women and girls are usually raped or assaulted
• The Elderly is usually robbed,
assaulted or murdered
• Men are usually robbed, assaulted or murdered
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Should you be worried?
Should you worried about your child dropping out of high school?
The answer is YES.
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Dropout Breakdown…
• 1.3 million high school students dropout per year
• 3,562 students drop out per day
• 148 students drop out per hour
• 3 students drop out per minute
Source: Education Week
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Is your child at risk?
There is a high possibility
that your child might commit
a crime and end up in prison
if they dropout of high
school.
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More about dropouts…
• Dropouts are 20 times more likely to end up in prison or jail than a college graduate.
(Sum, Khatiwada, & McLaughlin, 2009)
• Earnings for students who quit school continue to decline: in 1971, male dropouts earned an estimated $37,087, which decreased by 35% to $23,902 in 2002.
(Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education)
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Summary so far…
• 30% of dropouts are UNEMPLOYED. • Dropouts are 20 times more likely to
end up in prison or jail than a
college school graduate. (Sum, Khatiwada, & McLaughlin, 2009)
• Dropouts who commit crime, hurt people like you and me. They also hurt innocent people like children .
• 1.3 million high school students dropout per year.
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Is your family at risk?
What would happen to your family if your child drops out and become a criminal?
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Did you know?
Failure in Algebra is the #1 trigger of dropouts in high school (Helfand,
2007)
Yes it starts within the classroom.
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More information
• 70% of students who don’t pass Algebra by the 9th grade drop out.
(The California Dropout Research Project, 2008 )
• There is a clear link between Dropping out and Algebra
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Students Performance in Algebra
61% of First Time Algebra students receive D or F. After repeating Algebra 75% receive F.
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Reminder
• 1.3 million high school students dropout per year.
• 3,562 students drop out per
day. • 148 students drop out per
hour. • 3 students drop out per
minute . Source: Education Week
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How did your child perform?
What was your child’s grade in Algebra?
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Not “IF” but “WHEN”
• Clearly your child is at risk of dropping out.
• Statistically, it is not a question of “IF” your child will drop out but “WHEN”.
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What are your options?
Give up on your child Do nothing Find out more about why your child is failing Algebra Get a plan
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Why do kids fail?
• Most children fail because of Math Anxiety.
• Math Anxiety is when a
child has a fear of math
• It interferes with your child’s mind and prevents them from concentrating in math classes.
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Math Anxiety
• Makes your child believe that they are incapable of doing math
• Causes your child to have negative attitudes towards math
• Creates fear of answering question in class incorrectly
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Math Anxiety
• Causes your child to worry about what their peers will say if they give a wrong answer
• Makes your child unable to sit and focus in math classes
• Makes your child feel embarrassed and frustrated
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More Information
• If a child has Math Anxiety it is also more likely that he/she might have Test and Social anxiety as well. (Perina, 2002)
• Students who have Math Anxiety are less likely to continue working on a problem if they fail to understand it the first time
Source: Liberty University
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When does the symptoms start?
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