JAWS DROP AS CITY HS DROPOUTS TOTAL 350K (NYC at 30%)

NEW YORK POST ^ | 6/17/04 | CARL CAMPANILE

[wagglebee]

I'm guessing that they will conclude that this is Bush's fault and more money will fix it. The answer is school vouchers, so students who want to learn can go to non-government schools where they will be taught by non-union teachers who want to teach.

[cyborg]

Randi may be more evil than Crustfrau the Terrible.

[South40]

This is not news and should be immediately relegated to chat.

Sorry…couldn’t resist. :-)

[wagglebee]

This is not news and should be immediately relegated to chat.

Touche!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Clearly, NYC hasn't opened enough gay schools.

[wagglebee]

Clearly, NYC hasn't opened enough gay schools.

Or any Muslim schools to train future jihadists.

[Salvation]

**a staggering 350,000 public high-school students have quit or flunked out of school since 1986, Department of Education data show.**

Something is terribly wrong here.

[cyborg]

LOL

[Lunatic Fringe]

That's an average of 67 students per high school per year for 18 years.

[Super Mak90kid]

"I'm guessing that they will conclude that this is Bush's fault and more money will fix it. The answer is school vouchers, so students who want to learn can go to non-government schools where they will be taught by non-union teachers who want to teach."

I highly question the longterm results of school voucher programs. If we take the lowest common denominator out of the public schools and put them into private schools, the quality of private schools will end up paying the price. Eventually there would be no difference between public and private schools.

[stboz]

Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

(Makes as much sense. Dropouts, stupids...all the same.)

[conservative in nyc]

The answer is school vouchers, so students who want to learn can go to non-government schools where they will be taught by non-union teachers who want to teach.

Absolutely. The answer is taking power away from the UFT educrats who have turned the schools into a cesspool and inviting competition --- make competing small schools within schools run by different non-UFT, non-NEA TEACHERS, not tenured educrats.

It always amazes me how the city's Catholic schools, which pay its teachers much less than the public schools, do much better than the educrat-run publik skools.

[wagglebee]

Of course something is wrong, the teachers union cares more about power and money than educating children. Don't get me wrong I know that many (probably the large majority) of teachers are well-qualified and dedicated, but they are hindered by union bureaucracy.

[farmfriend]

And I thought the education system in CA was bad.

[Happy2BMe]

"That means the number of New York City dropouts over this period exceeds the entire population of such cities as St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Buffalo, St. Paul, Minn., and Newark."

This is light work - between Hillary, Rangle, and Rev. Sharpton (and enough taxpayer money) these people will be "Movin' On Up To The East Side" before you know it.

[nmh]

Of course teachers will want more pay for such a fabulous track record of "educating" students.

[CurlyDave]

Note that they are going to try to emulate the schools with a 58% graduation rate. While this is certainly better than the 37% they achieve now, I think the net effect will be to pi$$ Bill & Melinda's money down a RAThole.

When I was in high school, graduation rates were in the 90+% range.

[okie01]

A top adviser to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein also cited the high dropout rate and low graduation rate — only one of every two high school students obtains a diploma on time — as reason to overhaul the city high schools.

Ya really think, Joe?

[Ciexyz]

I used to do personnel work, and it was sad to see the occasional Black kid (it was always a Black, never a White) who turned in a barely-legible, scrawled job application that looked like a second grader wrote it:big uneven print that went up and down, not in a straight line.

It made me feel angry at our public school system. The poor kids wanted to work, but how could they get hired if they can't write?

[dufekin]

Unfortunately most of the dedicated, hard-working, well-qualified teachers who actually know something worth teaching have been driven from the schools by the bureaucracy.