KERRY CLAIMS: 53% OF CHILDREN DO NOT GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL

Drudge Report ^ | February 1, 2006 | Matt Drudge

[spikeytx86]

If sacrifice was necessary then I would give all I had for my country. But I am not going to sacrifice for the sake of sacrificing. Not to mention that if I were to "Sacrifice" my tax cuts, I would bet my bottom dollar they would be going no where near defense spending or national security. It would be going to federally funded abortions, expanded welfare programs, and probably some other ponzi scheme the democrats would concoct.

[fortunecookie]

But 53 percent of our children don't graduate from high school. Kids don't have after-school programs...

Ooops, Senator, it's 53% that actually graduate. But what I'm curious about is how these rates play out in his home state of Massachusetts where he has been senator for about 3 decades and his party has held a clear majority for ... well for a very long time. Hmm. He and Teddy have been in a position to enhance their own state's educational policies and the Mass state educational system should be stellar then, right? We should be seeing the clear fruits of their efforts within their state. Their literacy and graduation numbers should be phenomenol and a shining example to our nation and to the individual states. Ideas he should be eager to share with the nation in a bipartisan way. *sound of crickets* (I hope the DU trolls are reading this.)

I don't know how Mass state numbers actually play out, but he's just spreading the hate. I'd listen for his reply to this never asked question, but I don't have time to hit the slopes at Davos right now...

[bazbo]

I'll bet that if the 53% number is correct it is largely comprised of children of the left wing, (Blue States).

[jonascord]

Well, somebody out there is working 5 jobs to make up for the one I've got.

Sure sucks to be him...

[bwteim]

According to most recent data, which should have been available to Kerry staffers...

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006601.pdf

The actual stats are 73.9% of freshmen graduate....

"The [averaged freshman graduation] 2002-03 national rate is 73.9 percent.

In summary, close to three quarters of freshmen nationwide graduated from high school on time in these 2 years (tables 1 and 3)."

[bwteim]

And the title of that little document is:

The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools
From the Common Core of Data School Years 2001-02 and 2002-03

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006601.pdf

[cinives]

Because their NEA dues-paying members would lose their jobs...

[Irene Adler]

Where are all of those non-high school graduates? Do they magically disappear forever immediately upon non-graduation?

I say this because I never, ever seem to hear of anybody who fails to graduate. Now, I know this is anecdotal evidence from a middle classer, but with such HUGH numbers overall (53 percent), I would think I'd run into, or reliably hear of, at least some specific individuals who don't graduate from high school, and I never do. Where do they all go?

[mak5]

"Kids don't have after-school programs"

So? Were there so many after-school programs when all of the previous generations went to school? That's why it is after-school. It is not the government's responsibility to babysit or provide things for children to do.

[manwiththehands]

What's really scary is that there are millions of Americans who probably believed him.

[HEY4QDEMS]

He's confusing todays children with the drug culture of his generation.
What he meant to say was '53% of children don't graduate from school high'.

[Airborne1986]

Kerry clearly had his head up is ass and now the usual suspects in the MSM will trot out some statistic that indicates that 53% of Eskimos or Native Hawaiians or whoever don't graduate and suggest that it was to this that Kerry was referring. Carter, Mondale, both Clintons, Kerry and Gore also peddled themselves as Big Thinkers and it was taken as true by the MSM. For a while, Doctor Dean was supposed to be a genius until he exposed himself beyond the point that even the MSM could cover for him. By contrast, while "Big Thinking" liberals get free passes for their gaffs, the MSM perpetuates the stereotype of Bush '43 as a moron for less egregious mix-ups (while having many more opportunities to commit them and having them captured on film/tape.) They also did this to Reagan before, during and after his Presidency. O.K. Thanks for letting me vent.

[jsk10]

3 out of every 4 Americans make up 75% of the population

[Always Right]

3 out of every 4 Americans make up 75% of the population

And only 50% of kids perform better than the medium on the SAT.

[Richard Kimball]

But 53 percent of our children don't graduate from high school.

Very few children graduate from high school, although a lot of adolescents do.

[Joe 6-pack]

"KERRY: That's terrific. But 53 percent of our children don't graduate from high school."

Statistically the percent of children that WON'T graduate this year is probably far higher than that....0% of the High School Juniors will graduate this year. 0% of High School Sophomores will graduate this year. 0% of High School freshman......

Making a very rough swag that the number of students enrolled in each class, K-12 is approximately the same, only about 7-8% of our children will graduate this year.

[Joe 6-pack]

"3 out of every 4 Americans make up 75% of the population"

In a very peculiar correlation, those same 3 all live in dwellings located directly above the center of the earth!

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

[buffyt]

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