here's a hint that won't cost them a single penny:everybody speaks PROPER ENGLISH while in school!!!
white black brown yellow or red... NO JIVE/SLANG of any kind at all... they have the rest of their lives to talk sh!t.
Posted on 03/25/2005 11:36:31 AM PST by NormsRevenge
The high-school dropout crisis in Los Angeles and across California is far worse than anybody knew.
Researchers at Harvard University reported Wednesday that more than half of the students who enter Los Angeles Unified School District high schools, and nearly 30 percent across the state, don't graduate within four years. The dropout rates are sharply higher for Latino and African-American children.
Those numbers are roughly twice as bad as members of the education establishment led the public to believe. For years, they have blamed transiency of the large immigrant population and a lot of other reasons for the lack of good data, while fudging the numbers to make the situation look less dire.
The consequence of this denial is that a generation of children has been relegated to low-paying jobs because its members simply lack the skills to make better lives for themselves. The public education system failed them.
Now that the appalling truth about dropouts is out, the question is what, if anything, will the educational establishment do about it?
For starters, the report suggests developing a statewide tracking system so student progress can be accurately charted.
Then, existing programs must be thoroughly examined. LAUSD Superintendent Roy Romer has clearly tried to grapple with the problem by introducing an effective reading program in elementary schools and a tutoring program to help middle-school students who are falling behind. Many smaller schools are being built, and academies being developed on larger campuses, to try to make education more personalized. The charter-school movement also offers great promise.
But there can be no doubt that the single most powerful element in the success or failure of students is their families.
Children succeed in school because their parents are involved, set high expectations for them, get them the help they need when they are struggling and have both the time and the skills to make sure the schools are delivering.
The other side of that is the side of failure. There are many reasons parents are tuned out of their children's education: Cultural and language barriers, parents who are overworked and overburdened, and others who are just disinterested.
If Los Angeles schools - if schools across California - are to turn this woeful trend around, they must develop more effective strategies to reach the parents of failing students. They must give them the understanding of the importance of education, as well as the tools they need to help their children. The education system must find new ways to involve families more fully in the process.
That's asking a lot of an often overburdened educational system. But new buildings and new curricula and new tests are not going to achieve results unless parents are held responsible for making sure their kids get to school, and are ready to learn when they get there.
Okay. Here's the plan:
Decrease funding for math programs
Decrease funding for reading and writing programs
Use these funds to hire additional adminsitrators
Have new hires conduct feasibility study on increasing family invovlement.
Abandon study when Jesse Jackson announces that he will not tolerate criticism of family structures in the minority community.
Provide grant money to Harvard to see if the problem has worsened.
Yes, and illegal students are a major reason many CA teachers still have jobs, (even if their performance is dismal). One thing I did not see is that in many hispanic communities if the father has a position for his sons they get employed in the family business when they can handle the job. This is often the reason for dropping out of high school. As far as the girls, I forget what they drop out to do.
We know from other articles that blacks drop out because to succeed in school (with the exception of sports) is acting white. And role models like Condi and Colin simply prove the case, since Condi is doing so well in her career she can't be black?
Oh, goody. A new word. Let's see if I can use it right:
Al Gore was a droput from divinity school before he invented the Internet.
When I play golf, I droput the ball near the hole when no one is looking.
The cop droput the doughnut in his coffee cup.
Can you droput the lawnmower in my garage when you're done with it.
Please don't droput the turkey on the dog.
Oh, just droput, will ya. ;-P lol
Eventually, America is going to be forced to look in the mirror and stop forever scape goating all the teachers across America. It all starts in the home and the problems are just a social reflection of ourselves.
Have babies.
I'm sorry... So you said all that to say what?
here's a hint that won't cost them a single penny:everybody speaks PROPER ENGLISH while in school!!!
white black brown yellow or red... NO JIVE/SLANG of any kind at all... they have the rest of their lives to talk sh!t.
Those "parents" are products a public education system that is working exactly as intended. So are the teachers.
At the risk of this post being extirpated, I would point out that for at least 100 years we have known that there are intelligence differences between children. Whether from nature or nurture, presently the mean I.Q. for some minority groups is 85. It usually requires an I.Q. of 85 or better to profit from the usual HS education. This means that one half of these students will either fail at HS work or quit unless the system is dumbed down.
Those of Whie European ancestory need not be too puffed up by these findings. Presently, we are trying to send 40-60% of HS graduates to college but only 26% or thereabouts are graduating. Since it takes at least an IQ of 110 (about 20-25% of the population)to do real, academic college work, it is not surprising that the college "drop out" rate is so high.
An unbelievable cultural, egalitarian shared delusional bias keeps education in the backwaters of discovery and success. As long as everyone believes "all children are above normal" then you will have a mythical community of Lake Wobegone rather than a real society. Since children and society live in real communities the Lake Wobegone option won't work.
The real crisis in education is not money or ability but honesty and planning for children of different abilities. It may be we need to spend a lot more on the lower half of the bell curve: we might also need to expect a lot more from the upper half of the bell curve.
Just my opinion. I hope I don't bet banned.
I wonder if this numbers are skewed. By that I mean that are students that are pulled out of these schools by thier parents to be homeschooled being counted as dropouts?
I would suspect to a limited degree, that might be true, but I'm not sure, quite frankly.
I said it to add some new facts (maybe obvious, maybe not) and to add some levity. (Oh, and to post my agreement with what you said.)
We have a winner, and it works for hispanic dropouts as well. This is not to say that whites do not drop out for the same reason, but they appear to do so in smaller numbers?
Well, the home and school go together. In my son's school (one with lots of hispanic kids) the teacher was told by the hispanic parents to teach the kids in school and skip sending them home with homework, because at home they had other things to do. Of course, doing homework is the single best predictor of success in school, and the more homework the more success. So this parent had it wrong, but as the teacher continued to assign homework, the hispanic kids simply fell farther behind and became more turned off and more distuptive. Not a good plan at all. The teacher btw was a black lady and very consciencious and hard working. She did not have an answer to the challenge to educate in class and let the kids have their free time at home.
I'm confused. Might you be?
FYI: Hispanics are "white". That's why the feds have the category WNH (White: Not Hispanic)on all census data.
Just imagine how bad things would be if they hadn't stopped that school choice inititive. < /sarcasm>
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