LET ARE KIDS WALK
Parents protest decision to not allow students who failed state graduation test to participate in commencement ceremonies.
-PJ
Posted on 05/23/2007 2:59:55 PM PDT by george76
Remedial classes await.
Thousands of Colorado high schoolers are graduating this month with plans to go to college in the fall.
Hundreds of them will be academically unprepared when they get there.
Those students will take — and pay for — remedial classes that don’t count toward a degree.
Educators say the need for remedial work is fueled largely by a lack of communication between high schools and colleges about what’s important to know. They also say high school students need to pay closer attention to class selection and grades, especially in the senior year when many coast toward graduation day. And, some say, high school should be more rigorous.
About 30 percent of recent high school graduates who went to Colorado’s public colleges last year were assigned to remedial courses in at least one subject, the report said. The number rose to about 56 percent at two-year colleges.
Nearly 61 percent of students were assigned to remedial classes at Pikes Peak Community College.
Even in the Pikes Peak region’s top-performing high schools, as many as 20 to 30 percent of graduates needed remedial help in college.
(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...
I'm not positive that comparing public schools to Catholic schools is an equitable measurement since Catholic schools are funded by donations of the local and national members. Not to mention, Catholic schools are not required by law to offer specialized programs to all students, regardless of disability up until the age of 22.
Interesting though that your example of $4-6k a year matches the article that stated it costs about $5 to educate an average student.
And the cycle continually repeats.
There are wide differences in how much special ed students cost to educate. I work with the learning disabled. The cost to the district for these 12 kids is 1 teacher and 1 assistant and about $400 or so in materials. Definitely higher than the average student, but not exorbitant. However, our county pays for residental services for one particular violent autistic child to the tune of $250k a year. Big difference.
Todays students are NOT taught to learn. They are taught only to pass stupid government mandated test.
http://savannahnow.com/node/205697
I just checked it, so I know it's still a live link.
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Jude,
Americans are **not** stupid.
How much per pupil is freely available in my state. It is even broken down by special vs. normal education.
It is easy to compare the government cost to educate a government **normal** child to a privately schooled **normal** child. It costs **more** than twice the cost to educate a government child.
Also, not included in the cost per child are the pension and other retirement benefits that teachers receive because the minute they retire they are classified as merely a former state employee. Also, not included in the cost per government child are the capital cost that private schools pay out of their tuition ( which is half the amount). So the *true** cost of educating a **normal** child in the government system is **far** higher than in the private system.
Thank you to you too, RKBA Democrat.
Problem is, very few private educations reflect the actual cost of educating their students. I know a Chemistry teacher at a small Christian school. She's paid under $20k/year. If she wasn't approaching it as a ministry (and if her husband wasn't a highly-paid research scientist), those numbers would not be sustainable - and even there, tuition is $4500/year.
Private schools are either incredibly expensive (more than a college education) or subsidized by a religious organization that pays virtually nothing.
(And, by the way... I liked this post... it was about the issues.)
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This is what the free market produces. Too bad.
It does **not** matter what a private school teacher’s motivation or circumstances are. She is **willing** to provide her services for $20,000 a year. That is the **Free **Market. No one is holding a gun to her head.
Were you aware that volunteers ran the Catholic schools for more than a century and were paid nearly nothing? They were called nuns. These volunteers were responding to the free market. They were willing to give their labor away for almost no salary.
Are you aware that homeschooling parents educate their children for no pay at all, or even at a negative wage since they often give up outside employment? They see it as a calling as well. They are responding to the free market as well.
The free market also permits anyone to subsidize any charity. That includes private schools. The result is that private schools cost parents far less than government schools, and cost the taxpayer nothing. No private school is going to send an armed sheriff to a citizen’s door to put their home up for auction for failure to support their private school.
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All my posts are about the issues. I invite you to re-read them.
LET ARE KIDS WALK
Parents protest decision to not allow students who failed state graduation test to participate in commencement ceremonies.
-PJ
These parents are the problem.
They want social promotions for the kids even if they and their kids can not read, write, nor do basic math.
Not a great future for their kids nor for America.
OMG, too funny. Sad too.
we’re slipping and sliding...
so exactly how much are we paying our teachers and administrators to not know what the students in school need to know?
Sign says let ARF kids walk
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