High School dropouts in Mexico

Abstract

The acknowledgement of education as part of the fundamental rights is, until now, an often empty discourse. There is a great challenge in Mexico to guarantee this important right. It is essential to think about policies and strategies capable to retain high school students in the classroom, avoiding the school dropout that affects about eight hundred thousand students every school year. Here is a brief review of the state-of-the-art where different types of conceptualizations were found, it is a changing concept throughout the time, but the most important thing is the critical coincidence against the concept of desertion, to name this educational phenomenon, because of the stigmatization of the students. The purpose of this essay is to reflect on the complex situation of this phenomenon to reach a good solution. A qualitative methodology from the recent theoretical and conceptual contributions around the abandonment and school climate is used here. The essay is divided as follows: first, the state-of-the-art about school dropout is documented; secondly, this paper focuses in the high school climate and, finally, it offers a multifactorial interpretation between dropout and school climate.