Biden wants 14 years of education for ALL Americans and to extend child tax credits to 2025: President demands two more years of school so US can compete with the world in Illinois speech drawing hundreds of Trump protesters

I took direct action on the graduating early topic. I petitioned the school board to define "class standing" by credits accrued in place of the old "semesters attended" metric. They agreed. The accrued Summer school credits allowed me to move from 10th grade to 12th grade in consecutive years. A large contingent of my classmates took advantage of the redefinition and did the same.

You should petition your school board as I did to define class standing by credits accrued instead of semesters attended to define class standing. I had two primary motivations for doing the petition. First, I wanted to graduate a year early and get on with my degree at UCSD. Second, I wanted to enjoy actually being a "senior" with the class activities. The latter objective didn't turn out as good as hoped. I was working at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour during my senior year and the money I earned to pay for many senior activities was wasted as my work schedule conflicted with the activities. I was even denied participation in the PSA "Flight of the Eagles" as an Eagle Scout in 1972. I washed dishes while others enjoyed the activity. My boss loved to tout having Eagle Scouts on his staff, but was pretty abusive. Water over the dam.

Two more years in our failure factory schools sure is going to help us compete. Kids in China are learning calculus while in the US kids are taught to count the 37 genders and ponder what pronouns to use this week. Kids in Europe learn several languages while in the US kids are immersed in Marxist critical race theory.

Good luck w/ that, Biteme, because you’ll have to criminalize dropping out in order to keep urban blacks in high school (but that’d be raaacist):

Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
Cohort Dropout Rates
Black, Non-Hispanic/Male
2017: 27.2%
2018: 26.0%
2019: 25.5%
2020: 22.9%

Here for explanation of the numbers, a study of a cohort 626 students between 2015 and 2020 (and, you guessed it, they get 5 years to “graduate” from high school): https://www.cps.edu/globalassets/cps-pages/about/district-data/metrics/5-yr-grad-rate-fact-sheet.pdf

Oh, and that cohort can only include students who were marked present at least one day during 9th grade (!) and were in the 9th grade for the first time. That is to say, these rates, as appalling as they are, don’t touch the disaster our urban public policies have created.

See: https://www.cps.edu/about/district-data/metrics/

Meanwhile, CPS is bragging about higher graduation rates and lower drop-out rates in 2020... doh, kinda missing out of the key reason: using the shutdown as an excuse, they’re passing kids along with F’s. According to this article, https://www.wbez.org/stories/in-pandemics-wake-numbers-tell-the-story-of-a-devastating-year-for-many-chicago-students/36fc7420-8919-4cb1-8c2d-5ceaa8afe1bc, 10 schools had failure rates (Fs as % of all grades— across all classes, that 9s) were from 30-39%.

And you, my dear Freepers, are the racists...

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