This is probably a macro economic sign.

It's really really difficult to worry about school when your in a homeless shelter or living in a motel.

https://www.wtxl.com/thomasville/school-bus-dropoff-reveals-...

I do well now , but as a teenager I didn't give a shit about high school. If anything I wanted to graduate early, and get a job to ward off the next eviction.

We really need to go back to occupational training in high school. I should be able to graduate and earn enough to get an apartment. It's not like you can't get a degree in Midwestern Poetry later in life.