Posted on 03/31/2008 10:23:06 PM PDT by Westlander
WASHINGTON (AP) - Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Duh.
I guess we’ll have to rename the city Ftroit.
No, there are already 50 kids in the area with that name, of Ftroit. Their fathers are named Quinterious and the mother is either Tameka or Lameequanta.
It always frustrates me how these stories never link back to the original reports. For those interested:
Mesa 77.1%
San Jose 77.0
Nashville-Davidson Co. 77.0
Colorado Springs 76.0
San Francisco 73.1
Tucson 71.7
Seattle 67.6
Virginia Beach 67.4
Sacramento 66.7
Honolulu 64.1
Louisville/Jefferson Co. 63.7 1
Long Beach 63.5
Arlington 62.7
Memphis 61.7
San Diego 61.6
Albuquerque 60.8
El Paso 60.5
Charlotte 59.8
Wichita 59.6
Phoenix 58.3
20 Austin 58.2
Washington
District of Columbia Public Schools 58.2
Fresno 57.4
Boston 57.0
Fort Worth 55.5
Omaha 55.1
Houston 54.6
Portland 53.6
Las Vegas Clark 53.1
San Antonio 51.9
Chicago City 51.5
Tulsa 50.6
Jacksonville Duval 50.2
Philadelphia 49.6
Miami Dade County 49.0
Oklahoma City 47.5
Denver County School District 46.3
Milwaukee 46.1
Atlanta 46.0
Kansas City 45.7
Oakland Oakland Unified 45.6
Los Angeles Unified 45.3
New York City Public Schools 45.2 43
Dallas 44.4
Minneapolis 43.7
Columbus 40.9
Baltimore 34.6
Cleveland 34.1
49 Indianapolis 30.5
50 Detroit 24.9
And in other news... the output of silk purses is inversely correlated with the input of sow’s ears.
Anyone else surprised by these results?
For instance, seeing Minneapolis so low. Or Memphis that high?
I don’t find Colorado Springs, San Francisco, Seattle, or Nashville all that surprising, I must say.
You just don’t need a high school diploma to collect welfare.
Make it a requirement then you will see a 100% graduation rate in Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans.
Wierd style they have in Detroit, it never changes.
I heard from a teacher that there was a “Dementia” in her class. Whether she as kidding, I could not tell. She kept a straight face. All groups do some oddball things, but the make up a name for a child practice is baffling.
Minneapolis has been run by Liberals for the last 50 years. I am not surprised at all. After all, they are the ones who are so proud of their enlightened tolerance by electing Keith Ellison, a Muslim who was a radical for several years, to the US House of Representatives.
Some young mothers choose these cutsie names for their little cute babies forgetting that one day that kid is going to grow up and have to go through life with a stupid name like Star, Autumn, Sky, or whatever.
And don’t forget the Blackberry earphones.
Go to vouchers. Help people set up private schools (no string attached). The result might be ugly. It might be bad. In other words, it might be business as usual.
But on the other hand, the result might actually be an improvement and show a way forward for others.
My vote is on boredom, propaganda, and not wanting to get shived in the bathroom.
These kids think that they're getting nothing from the classroom, and they're right.
To be fair, the Milwaukee Public Schools dispute the methodology of the study. They claim their actual graduation rate is closer to 66% vs. the 48% of the study. I do believe them because they all look so happy in their TV commercials.
In Seattle's case I would bet they are including the affluent suburbs in the number to get it up to 67%.
Then again, high school graduation is relative. I find that most of them in Seattle have trouble figuring out what to do if the bill is say, $9.61 and you give them a twenty and 11 cents. If they have already entered the $20 into the register, and you give them the .11 cents after the fact, it totally throws them.
What makes you think that a brilliant idea like this would ever be considered, much less blessed, by politicians?
The Sainted Obama will CHANGE all this. We will just spend more money on education.
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For once, we're not at or near the absolute bottom of something good.
Oh, my eyes! My eyes!!
susie
I don’t know, but I can tell you we had kids who were 20ish still in HS where I taught. You can be dumb as a box of rocks perhaps, but you have to, at some point, turn SOMETHING in. Some of these kids come to school for the free breakfast and lunch and to have a warm or air conditioned place to flop their rear ends. They don’t study, ever, they don’t do any work, ever, but the school cannot get rid of them until they age out (in TX I believe the law stipulates they can go to school until the year they turn 21, but it might be 20).
And, I also think Mom’s welfare is tied to any minor children actually being enrolled and attending school.
susie
Good one... pat yourself on the back!
And yet some Rat in Lansing just entered HB 5912 to assure that all of us “underperforming” homeschoolers register with the local schools.
What a bunch of clods. Spend the time getting your own house in order before you invade ours.
Even the worst of homeschoolers can’t underperform public schools. They may equal them, but can’t underperform them.
“Minneapolis has been run by Liberals for the last 50 years. I am not surprised at all. After all, they are the ones who are so proud of their enlightened tolerance by electing Keith Ellison, a Muslim who was a radical for several years, to the US House of Representatives.”
Well, you say that, but Minnesota pretty typically ranks near the top of educational achievement charts. And on top of that, cities like Seattle and San Francisco top this list of major cities, as well.
Perhaps I considered it a bit more homogenous than it really is. I do know it has been a hotbed for immigration as of late.
Can't speak to the others but Autumn has been an accepted girls name for years (I know lots of little ones and quite a few in their 30's with the name).
But these are not made up names.
The real interesting ones are the orange jellos and lemon jellos of the world.
Our country would be a whole lot better off.
Only one of those that surprises me is Oklahoma City is so low. Would have thought they’d be better.
Sixth grade is enough for anybody in Oklahoma.
The city of Minneapolis is a relative island of political correctness in Minnesota. The rest of the state is not nearly so bad.
We need a "two-strikes" voter eligibility law. Voters elect their politicians and the administrators of their city institutions. If your mayor is indicted for crimes, and if you school administrators can't educate your kids, then you relinquish your right to vote at all until you can prove that you have the brains and common sense to make good decisions at the ballot box. Automatic 2-year suspension.
If this were to ever happen, the Dems would lose every battleground state. Because without Detroit, Michigan is an overwhelmingly Republican state; ditto for Pennsylvania; Missouri; Wisconsin; Florida. Sure, the Dems don't need inner city black votes in those states filled with white latte-sippers like Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Massachusetts. But without 80-90% majorities in inner cities the Dems would be toast.
One could only dream.
But on the other hand, the result might actually be an improvement and show a way forward for others.
A conservative solution to a problem caused by liberals.
Kwame was the mayor and not in control of the school system. The problem transcends Kwame.
Well the dumbest guy in Detroit is named Matt, but thankfully today he finally got fired.
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