Friday March 29th, 2024 5:56AM

POLL: Only 3% of adults think high school graduates are ready for the "real world"

It's gradation season, but a Gallop poll says very few adults think high school students are ready for the "real world".

Communities in Schools commissioned the survey and CEO Dale Erquiga says only 3% of adults thought high school graduates possessed the skills necessary to succeed in college and in the workforce.

Specifically, he mentioned that, "Folks feel that students need to exit high school with better financial planning skills or what's often called financial literacy."

Erquiga adds that the other learned skills that most adults felt the next generation was lacking could be labeled differently explaining, "Businesses often refer to this as soft skills. Educators would call it social/emotional learning. This is the ability to persist at work, work in a team, and show up on time and hold those lasting relationships."

Communities in Schools operates in most at-risk schools where the dropout rate is high. Currently, the group serves over 125,000 Georgia students.

The nation's largest dropout prevention organization, Communities in Schools, began in Georgia 40 years ago.

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