Roots and consequences of dropping out school

According to a case study made by a science education, magister and philosophy teacher, Mario A. Olmedo, the province of Formosa has a scholar dropout rate of 50 %. This means only fifty of one hundred students who start being formally educated continue their formation. Such dilemma not only confines to our province but extends to the entire nation that it turns an alarming social matter nowadays. There are several reasons as well as consequences among desertion in the Argentinian education system. Scholar institutions can be taken as reference to set the external roots to them.
To begin with, one of the problem`s main extra scholar origins points to economy. It cannot be denied that the existence of different social strata brings with itself different opportunities as regard education. Most of those who do not succeed academically are said to be marginalized or socially excluded. They are generally aborigines, children of unemployed or Paraguayan immigrants who daily come to Formosa to assist to classes. Some of them have to dropout school in order to support their parents providing sustenance for the family. Such situation might carry psychological damages into someone’s life. Depending on his/her personality, somebody can feel frustrated with him/herself because he/she will probably not achieve the goal of becoming a professional. This child or adolescent could go into the mental state of depression, which may grow into even more serious difficulties such as experiencing insomnia, loss of appetite/overeating and develop an eating disorder or, in the worst case, loos of life by committing suicide.
Next, let us consider a second extra scholar factor which refers to culture but is also attached to economy. There is a conception about teaching itself in which society do not think of it as a valuable task. Perhaps this is why our political authorities invest only 2,3% of the country`s gross domestic product (GDP) on education. It is ironic though; that those same politicians claim education is one of the keys to succeed on almost any aspect either individual or collectively. In this same line of thought, it is interesting to note how that sort of decisions re-impacts on economy with unfavorable consequences. Clearly, the less the number of generations who succeed on getting a degree, the bigger is a simultaneous stagnation on the different fields of knowledge and economy at societal level.
The main conclusion to be drawn from this essay is that monetary regulation is crucial on the issue. Its management affects our population both individually and collectively. School as an institution offers the first step to move between social strata individually. However, if few pupils progress beyond primary school, the access to the system`s third level turns into something almost impossible to achieve. Therefore, there cannot be neither social mobility nor a chance to develop collectively into our economy as society. Consequently, such dynamics impact on us causing serious damages which affect specifically our mental health.

Mazza, Sofia._