Posted on 04/01/2008 12:06:48 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON (April 1) - 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.
The report, issued by America's Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation's largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools, the researchers said.
Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma and about 1.2 million students drop out annually.
"When more than 1 million students a year drop out of high school, it's more than a problem, it's a catastrophe," said former Secretary of State Colin Powell, founding chair of the alliance.
His wife, Alma Powell, the chair of the alliance, said students need to graduate with skills that will help them in higher education and beyond. "We must invest in the whole child, and that means finding solutions that involve the family, the school and the community." The Powell's organization was beginning a national campaign to cut high school dropout rates.
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LOL! Oh, you mean like those endlessly recycled women's magazines articles, such as...
I read in the Washington Compost this past weekend (I only buy the $2 for 2 paper special for the coupons) that the current Chancellor for the District of Columbia public schools stated that the system serves the adults, not the children, and that this needed to change. She is not a lifetime educrat, from what I can tell, and warned the Mayor before he hired her that she wasn't going to be making nice with a lot of folks by putting the kids first.
If that's all true, think of how amazing and crazy that all is. I do hope she's being honest, and the Mayor backs her up.
The State takes my property taxes for education, whether I use it or not -- I hope that State leaves me the heck alone if I want to homeschool. Pipe dream?
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He was suspended for one day. He also received a summons to appear in court (since he's so young, you know they won't do much to him.) The day after his suspension, he is right back in class, hanging out with decent kids. I WISH the drop out rate were higher in middle school. These are the kids you want OUT.
“In Detroit’s public schools, 24.9 percent of the students graduated from high school...”
Jenny Granholm, the Berkeley communist governor of MI, has designated Detroit as a “cool city.”
Just one more benefit of 50 years of dhimmicrat control.
Sooner or later I'm going to have to look and see just what these secrets are.
Correct, this is largely a cultural problem, first and foremost,
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It is a problem of fatherless kids born to unmarried welfare moms. Unfortunately this cultural dysfunction is spreading into all racial and ethnic groups.
Expect to see the rise of the “Clockwork Orange” generation.
And?,,,,The government bureaucrats running these centers of failure have the audacity to insist on supervising **homeschoolers**??
Unbelievable!
There is a reason babies shouldn’t have babies.
If you are an uneducated drop out, you will raise uneducated drop outs.
These stats are horrifying. And should horrify any parent who isn’t into seeing their own children live a life of crime and/or a life of perpetual welfare. But OTOH, with Democrats always saying “every child a wanted child” (Sturgeon General under Bill Clinton), every child dropping out can whine to a Democrat about.. racism, sexism, being a victim. And that politician will use it the same way Hillary and Obama use the platform: Grow taxes in order to create more dropouts.
Many things to keep in mind:
Dropout rates are actually counted from 1st grade. If a student moves away, but no record request comes from another school, then the student counts against the original school’s graduation rate. Even more interesting, if the student does enroll in another school, yet no records are requested, new records are started - and then that school (if a public school) is on the hook too...
Another scenario - students who commit crimes and end up expelled and/or in prison - they also count as “drop-outs”.
Students who fail a grade and/or are held back - if they get to be 18 and take their GED, that counts against the school’s graduation rate.
Let us also consider the fact that every child that starts 1st grade, but end us homeschooled - they are “drop-outs”.
Now - let us look at the figures in the report - Of course, blacks are shown to have the highest drop-out rate. Having dealt with many students (black and white), the Vast majority (like 99.9%) of black students who do not graduate - every one was unmotivated by ANYTHING. They give in to peer pressure to NOT succeed in school. There is still a great deal of hatred in the black community for success. It is still looked at as “trying to be white”. I have seen many very bright black students who are treated incredibly bad by other blacks for being successful in school. It is almost as if many believe that academic success is betraying the race. It is truly frustrating.
I have had students who have, when younger (elementary), were polite and motivated students. By the time they get to Jr. High and especially High school - they are completely different kids. Even when the parents seem concerned, the kids change. They no longer wish to succeed. They just want to show out for their friends.
I know some die-hard, superior teachers who want to poll their hair out over some of the kids who are so smart, yet completely unmotivated by anything but showing out/partying/etc.
No matter how the numbers are run - they will be manipulated to be an excuse for more money. Money will NOT solve the drop-out rate. What will help is getting to the root of the problem. Drugs, poor parenting, and a community/culture that holds itself back.
They know how to count now?
In ‘71 we graduated 95% in a class of 550 in a rural/industrial/farm community.
I’m not a big fan of psychology, but I always thought that, “You get the behavior that you reward”, was accurate.
What makes you think they wonder.
Because it's an election year and a Republican's in the WH.
Who the heck wants to sit around for 12 years learning how to be the perfect socialist when a life of crime is right now?
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