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Graduation Rates a 'Catastrophe' in Cities
AP Via AOL News ^
| April 1, 2008
| KEN THOMAS,AP
Posted on 04/01/2008 12:06:48 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I was a dropout myself but I suspect the graduation rate at my school was close to 90% or more back in the 80s.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:09:06 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
They always talk like these are just sad, sweet kids who lose hope because their schools are not meeting their needs. Fact is, a vast number of drop-outs are the type that, in the old days, were kicked out. Kicked out for violence, for drugs, for disrupting class... by and large, these are the kids you don’t want sitting next to your daughter, or lying in wait for your son in the boys’ room.
To: cripplecreek
Rates in the large cities have been very high for at least 30 years. Why is this a shocker now!
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:12:12 PM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Mr. Thomas - Your assignment for tonight is to correlate dropout rates with (a) demographics, (b) percentage of single-parent families, (c) violent crime rate. Please report back tomorrow.
To: A_perfect_lady
lying in wait for your son in the boys roomchild - Boston - 11 years old - hospitalized after being pushed down the stairs by a child who is older and a well-known bully
child 1 has internal injuries, facial cuts, and a broken arm
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:13:42 PM PDT
by
xtinct
(I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland Hmm. What do all of these cities have in common?
Hint: it aint illegal aliens, who at least have the excuse of not speaking the language.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:14:32 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
To: KSCITYBOY
These stories reside in a newsroom’s tickler file, to be hauled out every year and dusted off for fresh statistics. Like the Venereal Disease story, its an evergreen, to be offered up on a slow news day.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Maybe it's just Alaska but we seem to have a high drop out rate for two odd reasons.
Graduation tests. Rather than bother with the tests, many kids are ‘dropping out’ getting a GED and going to work.
A lot of kids are taking AP tests, which grant college credit (don't go there, I know) and are dropping out, getting a GED and going to college when they would be seniors in high school.
Oh, and a lot drop out for all the other reasons (drugs, booze, hooking, bored to death, etc)
The bottom line is that over 5% of our kids don't finish school every year.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:15:22 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
To: ASOC
Our high school offered a three year graduation option. I’m surprised more kids didn’t take it...
To: rightwingintelligentsia
If I was to guess I would say that most of these large cities have been under the control of the Democrat party for years, most likely since the 60’s or 70’s. And yet every 2 to 4 years the people in these cities go to the polls and pull the lever for the same Democrats.
And then they wonder why things either stay the same or get worse.
To: Clemenza
Hint: it aint illegal aliens, who at least have the excuse of not speaking the language.
You might be surprised. Windsor Canada is starting to have a problem with illegal aliens from Michigan and I don't mean Americans illegally moving to Canada.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:19:52 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"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. And yet we have no problem importing millions of high school dropouts from Latin America through our legal immigration policies and allow millions more to enter illegally. It matters not whether the high dropout comes from Detroit or Nogales. Such hypocrisy.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:20:10 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Liberal Cities + NEA + ACLU + Liberal Parents + Liberal Judges + Liberal Juries + Entitlement Mentality = “Were you expecting something other than dropouts?”
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:20:40 PM PDT
by
pt17
To: rightwingintelligentsia
“In Detroit’s public schools, 24.9 percent of the students graduated from high school...”
This can’t possibly be true. What a joke.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:20:43 PM PDT
by
dr.zaeus
To: cripplecreek
The illegal Mexicans were coming into British Columbia from eastern Washington state in droves when I lived in that area. Hard as it is to believe, the farmers in BC used to import Sikhs from India to do farm labor!
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:21:13 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
These stories reside in a newsrooms tickler file, to be hauled out every (ELECTION) year and dusted off for fresh statistics
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:21:47 PM PDT
by
robomatik
((wine plug: renascentvineyards.com cabernet sauvignon, riesling, and merlot))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I wish Mr. Powell and his organization much luck.
Peer pressure has more of an effect on teenagers than parents and community. The first thing that needs to be addressed is the reality that inner-city school kids are scorned by their peers as acting white if they study and take an interest in school.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Our high school offered a three year graduation option. Im surprised more kids didnt take it...
That option would have saved me from dropping out. I got decent grades in most of my classes and even great grades in others. I was just thoroughly bored with school and dropped out to work at the start of my senior year.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:26:11 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Liberal utopia fails, again. Kids get screwed because of failing liberal ideologies, again.
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:27:30 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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