Abstract
The United States Department of Education (2008) in their Dropout Rate Report for 2006 reported twenty-five percent of high school freshmen will not finish all four years of high school. Schools have tried a variety of strategies to reduce the dropout rate but significant gains have not been seen. There is a lack of knowledge about what ideas teachers have to reduce dropout rates. Fifteen teachers working in a high school with a high dropout rate were interviewed about why they think students dropout, ways to engage students, social support, and how their school is organized. A majority of teachers felt parental involvement was lacking or they did not value the child's education.