1 in 10 schools are 'dropout factories' (where only 60% of freshmen make it to senior year)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/29/07 | Nancy Zuckerbrod -ap

[SnakeDoctor]

Less competition for those that choose to make something of themselves.

Somebody’s got to shovel fries.

H

[texgal]

Much of the drop-out rate can be related to illegal immigrant children. English as a second language doesn’t work because they are not proficient in their own native languages and have difficulty grasping concepts that other children their own age are able to grasp.

[Past Your Eyes]

The high school I went to has not had a dropout in over 2 years.

[Past Your Eyes]

" "There's no way out of the cycle of poverty if you don't have a high school diploma."

Maybe the rest of the article is BS as well. Never say never.

[3AngelaD]

Yes, and the education of native-born children is hampered, dumbed down and slowed down as a result. I read that some school districts in California have to accommodate 20 different languages. Native-English speaking children get short shrift in a situation like that.

[RightWhale]

40% in Alaska don’t graduate. That’s not just one in ten high schools.

[eleni121]

The dropout rate is far worse than the worst reports out there. I’m judging by the miserably skilled college students in my classes.

They are the ones who “graduated” HS!

It is a massive problem getting worse by the second.

The only thing that can save the corrupt feral mass pubic education system now is a voucher system immediately implemented. BTW—I do not think the public education system should be saved.

[figgers3036]

Vouchers frighten me. Once the federal government starts giving money in any form to a private school, it’s going to start telling that private school what exactly it can and cannot teach.

[VOA]

The highest concentration of dropout factories is in large cities or
high-poverty rural areas in the South and Southwest.

Great.
So I guess more kids graduate high school in the tough areas of
the Northeast.

With the requisite knowledge of math, accounting, and the physics of
ballistics to make them more refined gangstas.
Well, that's progress for you!
(/sarc)

[donna]

Single-parent mothers = poverty

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Couldn’t the same be said about a whole host of colleges and universities in this country?!

[Jim Noble]

Somebody’s got to shovel fries.

My grandma, God rest her soul, was an NYC public school teacher for 50 years.

Whenever the subject of underperformers came up, she would shrug, and say, "Somebody's gotta clean the subways".

[Jim Noble]

Much of the drop-out rate can be related to illegal immigrant children.

I call BS.

What is the percentage of native-born white children that you believe is capable of twelfth-grade work?

Hint: If you think it's over 60%, you're delusional. A high school with a dropout rate of only 40% is retaining too many non-students.

[eleni121]

...federal government starts giving money ...

---

it’s not federal money—it’s our money!

Let us keep our tax money that goes to the unionist controlled schools...and give us a choice to send to the schools of our choice.

[Kevmo]

I thought this was about College. It’s probably more suitable to say about 1 in 3 colleges are dropout factories by this standard.

[clintonh8r]

60%? That’s almost half!!

[OCCASparky]

Yeah, well, there's places which are far, FAR worse. In my last duty station before I left the Navy, I was a NF recruiter and had the chance to speak at many high schools and colleges in Southern California.

Sadly, many schools had dropout rates well in excess of 40 percent. One (Bell HS) sticks out in my mind--2500 freshmen, 600 seniors. Yep--a 75 percent dropout rate (to that point) with no guarantee that even those 600 would graduate.

[SuziQ]

The highest concentration of dropout factories is in large cities or high-poverty rural areas in the South and Southwest. Most have high proportions of minority students. These schools are tougher to turn around because their students face challenges well beyond the academic ones — the need to work as well as go to school, for example, or a need for social services.

The minority groups that have the largest numbers of dropouts are the ones whose cultures don't value education as a way to make a better life for themselves. Black and Hispanic kids who study hard and try to get into college are excoriated by their peers for trying to 'act white'. It is a big hurdle for a young person to have to get over, and most are just not strong enough on their own. This is why minority kids do so much better in private schools; they are supported and nurtured in their education.

[ASOC]

Alaska made a National list! Whoo-hoo!’

Oh, wait.......

(/s, as if needed)