Focus on the Goal:
- Commit to Your Future!
- Commit to Working Hard!
- Commit to Being Responsible!
- Make a Commitment to Graduate!
Top Ten Reasons to Make a Commitment to Graduate:
- The top 8 jobs of the future require a high school diploma and some post-secondary education.
- The average yearly income of a high school dropout is $19, 365.
- The average yearly income of a high school graduate is $33,633.
- A high school dropout has only a 58% chance of steady employment.
- Three in every 10 students will not graduate.
- High school dropouts are significantly higher risk candidates for substance abuse and crime.
- High school dropouts are twice as likely as high school graduates to slip into poverty.
- Increasing the national graduation rate by 10% would reduce homicides and assaults by approximately 20%.
- Individuals with a high school diploma have better indicators of general health.
- Individuals with a high school diploma live longer.