Lesson 9: Your Education

 

Education.

Do you want to be a poor adult, struggling to make a living?

• High school dropouts earn about $9,200 less per year than high school graduates and about $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates.
• High school dropouts are twice as likely as high school graduates to slip into poverty.

Do you want to work doing something you love —or something you could care less about?

• High school dropouts were over three times more likely to be unemployed than college graduates.

Do you want to suffer, unnecessarily?

• High school dropouts are also more likely to be in prison, on death row, unhealthy, divorced and single parents.
• Dropping out of school is associated with delayed employment opportunities, poverty, and multiple social and health problems, including substance abuse, delinquency, intentional and unintentional injury, and unintended pregnancy.
• Young female dropouts were nine times more likely to have become single mothers than young women who went on to earn college degrees.

Make a self-defense decision: “I’m going to stay in school, no matter what!”

Note: That might be some of the best self-defense advice you’ll ever get.