A new report out says in the 2014-2015 school year, 8 percent of Texas students who dropped out did so in the seventh or eighth grades. The Fort Worth school district is taking several measures to prevent students from dropping out before high school and keep them on the path to graduation.
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‘I thought I would pass’
For Jade Mayweather, problems at school started at a young age.
“I used to get in trouble a lot, sixth and seventh-grade year. Sometimes, I used to skip school,” Jade said. “I used to get kicked out of class. I used to, like, [not] come to school at all, like absent a lot.”
Not yet a teenager, Jade was on the verge of becoming another statistic: a middle school dropout.
“I didn’t, like, really think it was that important to, like, come to school,” Jade said. “Because I thought I would pass anyway, but…”
[For more of this story, written by Stella Chavez, go to https://www.houstonpublicmedia...ly-as-middle-school/]
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