A 37% graduation rate in that school district!! That is deplorable!
That’s not an actual graduation rate.
That’s just the percentage that stayed in their seats long enough to “Graduate” with a meaningless piece of paper.
No education allowed.
“A 37% graduation rate in that school district!! That is deplorable!”
It’s happening in Europe too, and is a surefire way to decline as a nation.
If only that were the reason for the rage.
I'm a veteran urban school teacher, and here's my guess as to the general situation. Consider a class of 30 students. In that class:
5 students never attend school. They're on the rolls, but you'll never see them. Calls home aren't returned.
5 students attend two or three times a week. Naturally, they're all failing. Sometimes they'll just go to sleep when they're there. Sometimes they'll become disruptive.
5 students attend most days. But they talk continually in class. They use their cell phones whenever they feel like it. Those students are very disruptive, and often violent. The principal blames the teacher for not being more "creative", even though the teacher is following the mandated lesson plans exactly.
15 students are really great kids. Despite their poverty, they come to school with a good attitude. They want to learn something. But they don't learn much, because of the disruptive students.
And those that do graduate are little prepared to compete in any college or the real world.
Not uncommon for an big city public school .
Then they tell taxpayers they just need more money.
“A 37% graduation rate in that school district!!”..
Unfortunately, those are the ones with a D- grade level.
After four years in the Hartford high schools, more girls have babies than have diplomas.
Blaming only the teachers is disingenuous at best. Cultural rot is largely to blame for students' declining academic performance.