According to the recent Johns Hopkins study, 41 percent of Oak Harbor High School students are dropouts. I could sit here and try to explain how this information is false and have no one pay any attention to it; or explain how it only matters what is really true, and not what people think is true.

I am a fifth year senior, but considered a dropout according to the Johns Hopkins study. There were a lot of different factors that came into consideration while they did this research, even though they weren’t set up to accurately show the dropout rate for all schools, Oak Harbor being one of them.

We all hear a lot of positive things about the school and hear the good things students do, but we forget if it’s not such a big deal. On the other hand, when we hear something negative it becomes huge. So I am not suggesting we try to forget this ever happened, I am just saying let’s not waste time and energy on something that we know is false.

The only reason this study is big news is because we made it big news.

Carlos Pineda

Oak Harbor