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by sorbus 5498 days ago
> This is already a problem now, imagine how bad it would be in a society with 1/4 of the current high school graduates not graduating.

By comparison, the dropout rate in 2008 was 8.0%, down from 11.8% in 1998[1].

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16