It has been a while, but I’m going to say if you throw out the one or two good HS in a urban school system, the ones they keep just to keep the handful of white/jewish/asian kids still in the mind grinder. So toss those. Then what you have as in East St. Louis, Detroit, Oakland, Newark is half graduation rates. Of those that graduate, only half go on to finish one year of post HS education. So basically the racket produces 25 rates tested against anything outside the racket.
But it is even worse, as the 9th graders are usually a good 20 percent bigger class then when they become a HS Senior class. Where did those kids go? If you counted those dropped out kids in the rates, then the disorganization has something like a 15 percent, one year completion post HS rate. And all this at 15=20k/kid per year. Enough for a private school and three to four times a parochial school.
But if you were running a production plant you would or could, fold total costs into the few widgets that met customer standards, so another way of looking at urban, Democrat party, union teacher plant cost is that a post one year student cost somewhere around a 100,000/year times 12 years.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-06-20-dropout-rates_x.htm#grad
But if you were running a production plant you would or could, fold total costs into the few widgets that met customer standards, so another way of looking at urban, Democrat party, union teacher plant cost is that a post one year student cost somewhere around a 100,000/year times 12 years.
Leisler - amazing - worse than I thought - your reply takes my breath away. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
You could do that with Boston Latin and a few others and arrive at the same result.
“But if you were running a production plant you would or could, fold total costs into the few widgets that met customer standards, so another way of looking at urban, Democrat party, union teacher plant cost is that a post one year student cost somewhere around a 100,000/year times 12 years.”
That could fund an amazing private education - with a pretty good profit margin. We definitely need more and more private sector involvement in education - and to break up the idiotic gubmint monopoly.
Oh, that’s their sacred cow, that one though. As you say the ‘mind grinder.’