Sarae White is an all-too-typical student in Philadelphia — she stopped going to school last year, and was on her way to becoming one more dropout.
“The teachers didn’t care, the students didn’t care,” White said. “Nobody cared, so why should I?”
In Philadelphia, the country’s sixth largest school district, about one of every three students fails to graduate — about the national average. CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that of the 4 million students who enter high school every year, one million of them will drop out before graduation. That’s 7,000 every school day — one dropout every 26 seconds.
Michael Piscal, Headmaster of View Park Prep Charter School in Los Angeles said, “It’s not working for teachers, it’s not working for students — it’s not working for society.