Report: City schools' graduation rate below 40 percent ( NYC ) ( Detroit 21.7 percent graduate )

Associated Press ^ | June 20, 2006 | (AP)

[MarkeyD]

Seems like the graduation rate would be something you just know and not need to be calculated.

[george76]

Even 53 percent is terrible.

[The Old Hoosier]

Seems like the graduation rate would be something you just know and not need to be calculated.

Not necessarily, if you went to Publik Skoolz.

[I still care]

I am so tired of this garbage.

On one hand, we say the kids need more money, we should fund the schools more and nothing is more important than education.

On the other, it seems we are constantly undermining the learning enviroment with political correctness, revisionism, and overbearing liberal psychology.

My mother was raised in a one room schoolhouse in KS. She is more brilliant than almost anyone I know.

Maybe the reason kids can't add is simply because it really isn't our priority, no matter what we say.

[Dumpster Baby]

I graduated in 1966, and I can only think of 2 kids in the whole high school (grades 10-12) that didn't graduate. One guy got pretty well wasted in a motorcycle crash, and another guy made the mistake of coming to school hung over and telling a teacher FU when she told him to get his head off his desk. The last we saw of that guy was when he was handcuffed and put in the back of a po-lice car. There may have been a few dropouts that I didn't know about, but basically only 3 or 4 kids max out of hundreds didn't graduate.

This was while dress codes and behavior standards were still constitutional.

[george76]

[george76]

The problem is not money.

It is the instructors like Jay Bennish who do not teach their subjects...

and school boards who approve of politically correct subjects...

the NEA and their fellow unions...

and ...

[george76]

[Williams]

1 Liberals have consigned the young people in our major cities to hell, and they could care less.

2 Just wondering, with a majority of inner city kids never graduating high school, why do we need 20 million unskilled workers from another country? I thought all Americans were Harvard grads running around in Polo shirts.

[Alberta's Child]

. . . with a majority of inner city kids never graduating high school, why do we need 20 million unskilled workers from another country?

Because the unskilled workers who come here from another country are about a thousand times more likely to show up for work on time every day than the unskilled workers we produce here in the U.S.

[chit*chat]

Either way, "we strongly believe that the rate needs to be higher," Mei added.

What a brain trust. No wonder they are graduating by the thousands. (/sarcasm)

[TWohlford]

Those are generally students who graduate within 4 years, which obviously don't count those who dtake a while longer (for whatever reasons).


Still grim tho.

[coloradan]

If only liberals were in charge of these school systems, so they were fully funded! Look what vouchers and "school choice" programs - the evil plan of Republicans to destroy our children - have done!

What? You mean these are Blue Nation schools? IMPOSSIBLE!! Look at the graduation rates!! Liberals promised utopia!!

[Williams]

Well I'm fairly sure the solution is not to bus in 20 million foreigners to make certain the Americans never get a job.

[RobbyS]

The irony is that the illegalswithout educating or special skills actually work; our natives, just sit on their behinds.

[chit*chat]

An educated person is our best consumer. Oh, never mind, that was a promo for Simms . . .

[prophetic]

As one noted educator once said:

It is a SIN to send your children to PUBLIC SCHOOL!!

Public school is akin to welfare whereby no matter how much money you throw at it, it will NEVER improve - but just create a bigger bureaucracy!!

[Btrp113Cav]

Why does the rate need to be higher? Seems to me many are graduating now that have no interest in self-improvement or education. So we just hand more kids graduation certificates? I can print up a boatload right here if needed.

[Southack]

...and can anyone tell me why the Left opposes testing and vouchers?!