Posted on 03/31/2008 10:23:06 PM PDT by Westlander
WASHINGTON (AP) - Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Duh.
I guess we’ll have to rename the city Ftroit.
No, there are already 50 kids in the area with that name, of Ftroit. Their fathers are named Quinterious and the mother is either Tameka or Lameequanta.
It always frustrates me how these stories never link back to the original reports. For those interested:
Mesa 77.1%
San Jose 77.0
Nashville-Davidson Co. 77.0
Colorado Springs 76.0
San Francisco 73.1
Tucson 71.7
Seattle 67.6
Virginia Beach 67.4
Sacramento 66.7
Honolulu 64.1
Louisville/Jefferson Co. 63.7 1
Long Beach 63.5
Arlington 62.7
Memphis 61.7
San Diego 61.6
Albuquerque 60.8
El Paso 60.5
Charlotte 59.8
Wichita 59.6
Phoenix 58.3
20 Austin 58.2
Washington
District of Columbia Public Schools 58.2
Fresno 57.4
Boston 57.0
Fort Worth 55.5
Omaha 55.1
Houston 54.6
Portland 53.6
Las Vegas Clark 53.1
San Antonio 51.9
Chicago City 51.5
Tulsa 50.6
Jacksonville Duval 50.2
Philadelphia 49.6
Miami Dade County 49.0
Oklahoma City 47.5
Denver County School District 46.3
Milwaukee 46.1
Atlanta 46.0
Kansas City 45.7
Oakland Oakland Unified 45.6
Los Angeles Unified 45.3
New York City Public Schools 45.2 43
Dallas 44.4
Minneapolis 43.7
Columbus 40.9
Baltimore 34.6
Cleveland 34.1
49 Indianapolis 30.5
50 Detroit 24.9
And in other news... the output of silk purses is inversely correlated with the input of sow’s ears.
Anyone else surprised by these results?
For instance, seeing Minneapolis so low. Or Memphis that high?
I don’t find Colorado Springs, San Francisco, Seattle, or Nashville all that surprising, I must say.
You just don’t need a high school diploma to collect welfare.
Make it a requirement then you will see a 100% graduation rate in Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans.
Wierd style they have in Detroit, it never changes.
I heard from a teacher that there was a “Dementia” in her class. Whether she as kidding, I could not tell. She kept a straight face. All groups do some oddball things, but the make up a name for a child practice is baffling.
Minneapolis has been run by Liberals for the last 50 years. I am not surprised at all. After all, they are the ones who are so proud of their enlightened tolerance by electing Keith Ellison, a Muslim who was a radical for several years, to the US House of Representatives.
Some young mothers choose these cutsie names for their little cute babies forgetting that one day that kid is going to grow up and have to go through life with a stupid name like Star, Autumn, Sky, or whatever.
And don’t forget the Blackberry earphones.
Go to vouchers. Help people set up private schools (no string attached). The result might be ugly. It might be bad. In other words, it might be business as usual.
But on the other hand, the result might actually be an improvement and show a way forward for others.
My vote is on boredom, propaganda, and not wanting to get shived in the bathroom.
These kids think that they're getting nothing from the classroom, and they're right.
To be fair, the Milwaukee Public Schools dispute the methodology of the study. They claim their actual graduation rate is closer to 66% vs. the 48% of the study. I do believe them because they all look so happy in their TV commercials.
In Seattle's case I would bet they are including the affluent suburbs in the number to get it up to 67%.
Then again, high school graduation is relative. I find that most of them in Seattle have trouble figuring out what to do if the bill is say, $9.61 and you give them a twenty and 11 cents. If they have already entered the $20 into the register, and you give them the .11 cents after the fact, it totally throws them.
What makes you think that a brilliant idea like this would ever be considered, much less blessed, by politicians?
The Sainted Obama will CHANGE all this. We will just spend more money on education.
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