A group of 1, 000 students was randomly selected from three high schools in a medium-sized city and asked the question, Do you plan to finish your high school education  More than 89 percent answered Yes
This shows that the overwhelming majority of students want to finish high school, and that if the national dropout rate among high school students is high, it cannot be due to a lack of desire on the part of the students
contradicts itself by admitting that there may be a high dropout rate among students while claiming that most students want to finish high school