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He finds out too late that the job he longed for will be at best a dull, dirty one with little opportunity for advancement. Or, the jobless rate of 13 percent for school dropouts suddently becomes very real to him as he discovers that he doesn’t have the ticket Ijt needs to get through the ‘employers’ doors. The money he needs to buy the car, the clothes, or the stereo he wanted so badly just’ isn’t there. He will make less money than those who graduated when he does find a job and his future in any job is limited. In short, a dropout learns quickly and cruelly what Lyndon Johnson meant when he called education a necessity. f or many of these young people, there is still time. They can go back and finish high school. For others, it is too late. Those who are still in school ■and considering dropping out*
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