Posted on 11/06/2013 2:05:17 PM PST by MichCapCon
ridiculous. You are right.
Good math thinking there, but it likely doesn't apply here. There are 66,000 students in Detroit schools, so it would take 15,000-plus missing half of the 180 school days to drag the absence average up to 46 days each for the other 45,000 kids with perfect attendance. Tripling the interquartile range (the difference in days missed for student #15,000 and student #45,000) makes it very unlikely that there are any statistical outliers... especially since we just showed that you would need 15,000 outliers to skew a perfect-attendance record for the other 45,000... so it is close to statistically impossible that there are enough statistical outliers to make the 46-day figure misleading.
Almost all US school districts mandate something between 175 and 185 days of school per year.
“Johnson cited the statistic while discussing the problems teachers face while being evaluated when students are not coming to class.”
Lol! They couldn’t care less about the kids, it’s the teacher evaluations that they think aren’t fair.
Corrected: it would take 15,000-plus missing virtually ALL of the 180 school days to drag the absence average up to 46 days each for the other 45,000 kids with perfect attendance.
(15,000 x 180 = 2,700,000... divided by all 66,000 = 40.9 days each... still shy of the 46 listed.)
So, with my error now corrected, you'd need 33,000 (ie, HALF) of the entire student body to miss HALF of the entire school year (with the other half having perfect attendance), to give a result around 46 days missed per school year.
Again, it's impossible to have any statistical outliers in a data set like this.
65,971 students...
$1,237,494,733 budget (yes, that's a billion-plus for one decaying city's schools)
That's $18,758 per student... $261 more than the annual tuition for the average US university (2- or 4-year program) in 2011.
Amazing
Yes, he made it clear that he would LIKE to SEE....
If u don’t comply, u will not eat and we will enjoy(like) monitoring(see) your progressive starvation....
Depends. My wife decided to divorce her first husband after five years of marriage. But since she already had two children she waited until they were out of high school. Her children also hated their abusive father and now refuse to see him. In your case I gather the divorce happened when you were young which is unfortunate, and you have my sympathy.
Hey! Give them a break, playing Midnight Basketball you’re to tired in the morning to get an education. Shorten school hours would solve the problem/ s
I didn't use actual numbers from the student body. You are correct. More than likely it's not from outliers. It would be interesting, however, to see the median number and the mode. That would tell us much more.
Most of the union contracts around here prohibit any action to be taken at all against an employee until he has missed more than 20% (sometimes more!!!) of his scheduled time without excuse.
The teachers are union, why should the students be different?
Since the kids are not going to school, just eliminate the manditory part. Let them figure it out on their own.
We’ll call it freedom to choose or on the job training.
I think that for those that remain in Detroit, we have the Hobson’s choice of anarchy or tyranny.
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