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rom the moment Luis E. Mateo started high school in Lowell, Massachusetts, almost ten years ago, he never felt safe. He remembers being bullied almost immediately\u2014first for simply being a scrawny freshman, and later because of his race. Meanwhile, his home life was chaotic; he and his mother frequently fought.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like, \u2018where do I belong?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have support from [school] friends, and didn\u2019t have support when I came home.”<\/p>\n

Mateo went to the guidance counselor\u2019s office a couple of times to address the bullying, but says he only felt lectured there. One day, after a blowup with his mother, Mateo says she kicked him out of the house. The next day, he got in a physical fight with one of his bullies. That\u2019s when he went to the guidance office and announced that he was leaving school. The counselor urged him to stay, but it was too late.<\/p>\n

Mateo\u2019s experience reflects many of the voices in \u201cDon\u2019t Call Them Dropouts,\u201d a new report released Tuesday by America\u2019s Promise Alliance, based on research conducted by the Center for Promise at Tufts University. Culled from in-depth interviews with 200 young people and nationwide surveys from 2,000 people ages 18-25, the study is the largest of its kind about teens who don\u2019t earn a high school diploma\u2014about 20 percent of kids who enter high school.<\/p>\n

The study found that young people leave school not because of a single event but due to a confluence of factors, including a violent home life, an incarcerated parent, or homelessness. Sixty-six percent of these young people experienced from three to 12 of these challenges, with almost one-quarter experiencing at least six.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Zaff, executive director of the Center for Promise, said the problem isn\u2019t that these kids lack grit\u2014it\u2019s that they become overwhelmed and often find themselves without support. If there was one predictive question, he said, it was, \u201cIs there an adult in your community you can turn to for help?”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the answer was no, [the young person] was much more at risk,\u201d said Zaff. \u201cIt\u2019s crucial to have several adults in their lives who can guide them and support them and have expectations for them.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seemed like the best thing was to sit back and say, \u2018OK, I have to leave.'”<\/p>\n

A particularly heartbreaking pattern: Before dropping out, many of these teens reached out to the adults around them only to feel let down and disillusioned by the experience. Mateo says he felt like his counselor \u201cwas listening but not really listening.\u201d This feeling extends to parents: The survey found that only 55 percent feel their parents actually care for them.<\/p>\n

Many kids \u201care reaching and trying and sometimes they\u2019re getting the door closed on them, literally and figuratively,\u201d Zaff said. And even if the adults are responsive, many give up too soon: \u201cThe assumption is if we reach out to them, and they don\u2019t immediately accept our help, then it\u2019s their fault they didn\u2019t finish high school.”<\/p>\n

Jennifer Silva, author of Coming Up Short, a book about working class young adults, said many teens at risk of dropping out learn at an early age to only count on themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone grows up thinking school is where you\u2019re supposed to succeed,\u201d said Silva. \u201cSo when high school becomes a site of betrayal and bewilderment, it makes them feel like, \u2018I shouldn\u2019t depend on anyone.'”<\/p>\n

During her research, Silva found that seemingly minor things\u2014not being sure where the guidance counselor\u2019s office was, not knowing which hotline to call\u2014can frustrate and derail young people who are in need of support.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s these step-by-step processes that seem really obvious if you\u2019re middle class,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Image: Luis Mateo and Kasandra Vega, both high school dropouts, work in the kitchen of the culinary program of the United Teen Equality Center Evan Richman \/ for NBC News
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And there are the teens who feel too ashamed to reach out. When Kasandra Vega went from her neighborhood school to a private Catholic high school, the transition was \u201cacademically overwhelming,\u201d said Vega, now 22. Her grades began slipping and she started drinking and smoking. Yet she didn\u2019t approach any teachers for help, and didn\u2019t want to burden her mom. \u201cI felt embarrassed I didn\u2019t understand the coursework,\u201d she said. \u201c[The teachers] had high standards, and they didn\u2019t expect anybody to fail.”<\/p>\n

When she found out she was pregnant at 16, she retreated from school even more. \u201cI felt like I\u2019d let everybody down,\u201d she said. \u201cIt seemed like the best thing was to sit back and say, \u2018OK, I have to leave.'”<\/p>\n

\u201cOne guidance counselor for every 1,000 students is not going to cut it.”<\/p>\n

Once struggling teens conclude that the adults in their lives are of no use to them, they tend to seek connection in far less productive ways, the study found. They\u2019ll join gangs, for example.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Gang members] told me, \u2018Come on, we\u2019ll treat you like family,\u2019\u201d recalled Mateo, now 23. He resisted the temptation, because he had witnessed much of the violence and arrests that come with that pledge. But he understands why a lot of his peers are attracted to the acceptance of a gang. \u201cIf you\u2019re offering somebody a place to belong, they\u2019re going to take it\u201d\u2014and they\u2019re going to drift further from school as a result.<\/p>\n

Both Mateo and Vega eventually did find mentors, in the form of their transitional coaches at United Teen Equality Center, an organization in Lowell that provides young people who left high school with workforce training and GED classes. Gregg Croteau, the center\u2019s executive director, said part of what UTEC does is provide that \u201cone consistent, caring adult\u201d that may not have been present during high school.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Teens] need that adult that makes them feel like they\u2019re part of a community,\u201d said Croteau. They need business owners from their neighborhood who can train them. They need schools that encourage interactive learning, so kids stay actively engaged.<\/p>\n

And schools should \u201chave that intentional philosophy [of creating] a sense of community,\u201d said Cocteau. \u201cIt can\u2019t just be luck of the draw, getting that one good teacher who cares.”<\/p>\n

There are, of course, teachers and community leaders who are naturally skilled at connecting with teenagers and fiercely devoted to at-risk kids\u2014\u201cmagicians,\u201d Zaff calls them. But he said there simply aren\u2019t enough to go around. Not only is \u201cone guidance counselor for every 1,000 students not going to cut it,\u201d but those counselors and other adults have to recognize when a teen is asking for help, and have to be persistent. A teacher of Vega\u2019s, for instance, once offered to tutor her, but she turned him down\u2014and never got such an offer again.<\/p>\n

Zaff envisions an \u201carmy of magicians,\u201d people who adopt the philosophy of mentors at places like UTEC or Self-Enhancement, Inc. in Portland, Oregon, where they\u2019re in the habit of saying, \u201cI put my last name on that young person. They\u2019re now family.”<\/p>\n

Of course, it\u2019s impossible to give every kid a formal mentor; these nonprofits have limited bandwidth.<\/p>\n

But these bonds can be formed “in all sorts of informal ways,\u201d said Zaff. \u201cWe should get as many adults as possible to say, \u2018I\u2019m putting my name on you.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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