Drop-outs from high-school or Cegep : relationship to school and to vocational integration assistance programs
This article is based on the results of a retrospective research conducted on 98 youth who dropped out of high-school or Cegep without a diploma in the years 1996-1997. The article analyses 1) the perception that these young people have of their decision to leave the school system 2) their recourse to vocational integration assistance programs and their relationship to intervention practices. The article demonstrates that the cause of school dropout and of the relative inefficiency of vocational integration assistance programs lies in the relationship that these youth maintain with the institutional training system and with intervention practices.