No one working with these students claims to know how to keep all students in school. Counselors, teachers, and administrators are in the front lines of what seems at times to be a losing battle.
" It's lessons with Snape that makes it worse, " said Harry flatly, " I'm getting sick of my scar hurting and I'm getting bored with walking down that corridor every night."
And so there is going to be a discrepancy, naturally, between minorities and between whites if they go to better schools. And they will not do as well on exams because they haven't had as much help.
These teenagers attend one on one, group and family counseling sessions, and take part in alternative activities that can replace the obsession with their smartphones.
OK, let's listen to Dr Ruth Caleb of the counselling service at Brunel University in London talking about what practical stuff students could learn before leaving for university that might make life easier for them.
And what you just saw, even when I'm tutoring my kids, when they're learning to code, I can't help them this well, this fast, this is really going to be a super tutor.