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Report: High school dropouts cost economy billions
Associated Press ^
| Feb 25, 2013 5:07 PM EST
| Philip Elliott
Posted on 02/25/2013 2:35:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:35:17 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Harvard Law School graduates cost economy trillions.
To: Senator_Blutarski
Thanks for the corollary.
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:38:35 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
water down those standards some more!
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:38:47 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Olog-hai
I disagree. Even if every American had a college degree, there will always be a lower class. There will always be unemployment, there will always be fast food burger flippers, janitors, Wal-Mart helpers etc. High School dropouts don’t cost the economy anything, they fill the above roles.
To: Olog-hai
Too often employers require education degrees for jobs they didn’t used to, even though base skills haven’t really changed.
This costs the economy billions, because it keeps people out of the workforce for years more than what is really needed.
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:42:05 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Olog-hai
It’s easy to see how those who don’t graduate cost us serious $$$...but I see no mention made of graduates who can’t read their diplomas.
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:42:32 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
To: Olog-hai
The real problem happens at 1st grade. Reading must be the first objective. A child should not be pushed into 2nd grade until the core subjects are passed. There is nothing wrong with keeping a child in first grade (or any grade) until the child is able to do the work. It is a complete disservice to keep passing the child along.
Teachers should be graded and the ones who can not teach should be allowed to seek another job where they can succeed.
To: wolfman23601
If the student is just wasting space in a classroom, they’re wasting taxpayer dollars as well. Personally I think the K thru 12 model is an outdated failure.
I dropped out in my junior year, took my GED a few months later and “graduated” nearly a full year before my classmates. I was already running a department in a local factory and hired a couple of my classmates when they graduated.
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:45:55 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Jonty30
Too often employers require education degrees for jobs they didnt used to, even though base skills havent really changed.
Yup, give me an ambitious teenager who can read, do basic math, and follow directions, and I'll make him an expert at any job I have expertise in. (If he or she has the interest)
I'm a high school dropout and I've learned to set up, maintain, and operate some pretty high tech machinery including robotics.
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:54:27 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Olog-hai
They wouldn’t cost us anything if the government wouldn’t give them freebies. If you quit high school, fine...no welfare, no food stamps, no cheap housing, etc. I also think everyone should start off with a certain amount of government money...say 10K and once you go through that, your done for life. If we had started this 40 years ago, we would have zero problems.
To: Olog-hai
How many are illegal aliens?
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:57:14 PM PST
by
donna
(Pray for revival.)
To: Senator_Blutarski
Harvard Law School graduates cost economy trillions.
At least they eventually contibute to society...not like the high school dregs.
To: Olog-hai
I don’t see a problem, the Marxist proletariat output of the government schools has never been better.
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posted on
02/25/2013 2:57:59 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Olog-hai
This is sloppy logic. The low level jobs happen to be populated by high school dropouts, but they are not caused by high school drop outs. Similarly, high school graduates do not for the most part create higher paying jobs that cause more tax revenue, they just happen to get them more often. In this economy, unemployment is high at all levels, and the lower level jobs are being occupied more and more by higher educated people.
To: Olog-hai
The gov’t is going broke with the citizen as tax slave model of ruling.
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posted on
02/25/2013 3:00:18 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: napscoordinator
At least they eventually contribute to society... Yep, we all need compost.
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posted on
02/25/2013 3:00:40 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Jonty30
Instead of requiring degrees companies used to be able to give $50 aptitude/IQ tests. Then it became legal to sue them for discrimination when favored minorities did not score as high as whites or asians.
To: Olog-hai
Just give out free diplomas. Problem solved.
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posted on
02/25/2013 3:08:53 PM PST
by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
To: napscoordinator
They wouldnt cost us anything if the government wouldnt give them freebies.
That's a relatively recent development as well. Up until 20 or 30 years ago, most high school dropouts went right to work like I did.
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posted on
02/25/2013 3:16:51 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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