"Many young people still engage in substance use behaviours that have potentially permanent negative consequences for their physical and psychosocial development (Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, 2022)."

Tobacco and cannabis use can be contributing factors to suicidal behavior

This research was done in a facility to prevent 9th-grade high school dropouts. It provides tutoring,

personal development, summer enrichment, and parental

involvement.

This research evaluated whether this program helped change attitudes towards educational behaviors, their career goals, and role models.

Out of the 140 students they interviewed, most of them were African American.

Dropping out can put a high school in great debt.

"Drop out is the most devastating consequence of youths'

frustration with the demands of schooling. In addition to being frustrated, environmental Stressors (e.g., neighborhood) may

contribute to the youths' dropping out of

high school (Crowder & South, 2003)."

"Drop-out prevention is an important

area of study because society's cost for individuals who drop out of high school can be estimated in billions of dollars (Rouse, 2005; Buckley, Storino, & Sami,

2003)."

This article examines the relationship between employment status and (GPA, as well as the relationship between employment status and study habits and attitudes among high school seniors

This is quite an interesting find, considering that just our generation has not surpassed their parents because they are spending more time at their job than school.

Considering that this was in the 1980s, I'd imagine that high school students feel the same way now.

This was also not high schoolers who needed to help out their families, either.

"Each generation of Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach those of their parents. (Chronicle of Higher Education 1983)."

"15 April 1988 NBC program "Mainstreet" revealed in the program that "Many high-schoolers said they'd rather settle for learning less and earning more."

Some may say that peer pressure isn't real, but it is because of wanting to fit in

Can lead to addiction and doing bad in school