It’s not the kids really, it’s their parents’ lack of values.
Obviously we are not spending enough! /s/
Better throw more money at it! /s
MSM has been hawking this news all day. As if it is news. In other news, Oprah is back up to 260.
It’s not the kids that need to care, it’s their parents.
And when the fedgov is a “no strings attached” sugar daddy, there’s really no reason to care about how your kids turn out.
You give them books and they eat the covers.
Well you spend your life in liberal promulgated poverty and crime, I can see where it would difficult to keep to one’s studies.
So much for the ‘Leadership' of Kwame Kilpatrick and his band of corrupt thugs in “Moving the City forward”.
Wow, so it is just a roll of the dice I guess. Not up to the individual at all.
1 in 2 would be a record year for the school I graduated from!!!
The inner-city school I graduated from was and still is graduating on average 15% of its students.
Over a billion dollars was poured into the Kansas City, Missouri school system by order of a federal judge. Some outstanding facilities were built but it didn’t help the students’ education.
No child left behind, even if it is unable to spell its own name.
So where do the 1/2 of those that don’t graduate vanish to?
I did not graduate from high school (would have been class of 1978). I dropped out of high school three months into my junior year for reasons not related to my ability to learn. Now I have a MA degree and a professional career (completing my 11th year in this profession). There are a myriad of reasons why our countries youth do not complete their high school education, some of which have nothing to do with their ability to learn or how good the school is that they attend.
And why should they? If they don't care, the government will give them goodies appropriated from those who did care.
I’d love to take a survey - what % of school districts are run by Republicans ?
OTOH, if your science class consisted of watching Al Bore’s fiction “An Inconvenient Truth”, I wonder if I’d have been interested in science at all.
Simply go to "The Effect of Urban Flight on IQ Distribution"; This can be found on La Griffie du Lion; that Web site is HERE
The average IQ in our big cities is now 85. This is the cutting score for graduating from the usual HS. This means that one half of inner city children cannot graduate from the usual HS without enormous desire and tutoring.
All the rest of the explanations are simply a form of denial for the real problem. President George Bush is no exception; however, I sense he realizes the problem is doing his best to come to terms with low intelligence in our educational system.
Irrational egalitarian belief that we are all equal in ability as well as in the eyes of God and the Constitution has literally destroyed the chances of many children to make some or good use of the abilities they have. No child left behind is a slogan and not a biological finding. Trying to mold children with limited academic powers into whiz kids seldom works and, then, only for a few. The rest are left discouraged and bitter.
They aren’t “counting” right. A lot higher percentage graduate in Texas cause we count matriculation into the Penal system as a “graduation”. We consider Pen time as Community Service!
“Everybody’s guilty of something, Everyone should serve a little time,” (Newell Blakley-Criminal Law Professor-University of Houston).