dropout factory
n.— «Tonia Causey-Bush, a district administrator, said districts with significant dropout numbers are often called “dropout factories,” but that’s an incorrect label for Rialto Unified.» —“Rialto Unified to join school retention effort” by Melanie C. Johnson Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) Aug. 13, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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