Why did you drop out of school to work?

In the past, students dropped out of school mainly because of family economic factors and had no money to study. With the full implementation of compulsory education and exemption of tuition and fees in rural areas, fewer and fewer primary and secondary school students drop out of school due to family difficulties. However, the phenomenon of rural teenagers dropping out of school has not decreased. On the contrary, the phenomenon of rural teenagers dropping out of school is still very serious, and the social atmosphere of dropping out of school and working in rural areas is forming. It is estimated that the total number of young people dropping out of school in rural areas is roughly between 20 million and 30 million. On the surface, rural teenagers drop out of school to work is caused by the new theory of "reading is useless" in rural areas. They think that going to college may not necessarily lead to a good job, and the employment situation of college students is not good and their wages are not high. It is better to go out to work before finishing junior high school. However, if we go deep into the individual teenagers who drop out of school to work, we can find that dropping out of school to work is not necessarily the bad result of the "useless study", which is not the deep-seated factor for rural teenagers to drop out of school to work. Using the theory of "reading is useless" to interpret rural teenagers dropping out of school to work is actually an over-interpretation. There is no essential difference between rural teenagers dropping out of school and going out to work after graduating from junior high school. Because they all have one thing in common, that is, their academic performance is generally not very good, and they are strongly tired of learning and unwilling to continue their studies. More precisely, they are not in the mood to study at school and can't study any more, so they have to choose to drop out of school. Even if you don't drop out of school, skipping classes has become a common practice. From this point of view, it is not necessarily a good choice to drop out of school and work to learn a trade instead of suffering at school. What's more, because of poor grades, I have to go out to work after graduating from junior high school, and dropping out of school early to work can save a few years. In fact, both urban people and rural people pay more and more attention to their children's education, and most parents do not support their children to drop out of school and work. In the eyes of many rural people, going to college is still the main channel to change their destiny and achieve an upward cycle. As long as their children's grades are ok, they are willing to send them to high schools and universities. Only when their grades are too unsatisfactory, they have to drop out of school to work. In other words, it is not so much the "useless reading theory" that causes rural teenagers to drop out of school to work, but rather that rural teenagers have to drop out of school to work because of their unsatisfactory grades. To reverse the phenomenon and ethos of rural teenagers dropping out of school to work, we must optimize the allocation of rural educational resources, improve the teaching quality of rural primary and secondary schools, improve the academic performance of rural children, reduce the school-weariness of rural children due to unsatisfactory grades, and let the vast number of rural teenagers have the opportunity to go to high schools and universities. Changing careers is the only way out. Of course, we should also take reading and going to college as important channels for upward circulation and increase the gold content of reading, which can not only eliminate the "reading uselessness", but also increase children's reading expectations and interest.