Posted on 09/12/2010 2:46:18 PM PDT by humblegunner
More than 1,000 Houston dropouts woke up Saturday morning to an unexpected knock on their door from some of the city's top dignitaries — including Mayor Annise Parker, Houson ISD Superintendent Terry Grier and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White — encouraging them to return to school.
Hundreds of volunteers made morning house calls as part of the Houston Independent School District's seventh annual dropout recovery walk, now called Grads Within Reach. The walk, born in Houston in 2004, has expanded to 22 Texas school districts, as well as St. Louis and Des Moines, Iowa.
"Our success as a city depends on what happens in our schools," Parker said, "and there's too many students falling through the cracks."
Some calculations have put Houston's dropout rate as high as 50 percent for black and Hispanic students. Grier said HISD's efforts have proved fruitful, lowering the dropout rate that's reported to the Texas Education Agency to 15.8 percent, a 2.9 percentage point decline over the previous year.
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Noted activist and gang member “iwantpie” threatened to shank them crackers.
“Local gang members, annoyed by the visits, expressed displeasure.”
Concerned about a drop in their labor pool, no doubt.
This is like th program they started in Dallas with Barak Obama high school.
Freshman can be 21!!!!
So, 25 year old seniors?
Hey, they get to hang with their homies and eat a free lunch.
What’s not to like?
School just got more unpleasant and less productive for the students who hadn’t dropped out.
Our mayor, Anise Parker, is a proud lesbian by the way.
Just thought I'd mention that. Not that it has any contextual meaning.
“Just thought I’d mention that. Not that it has any contextual meaning.”
No, I can see that. Did she call them on the carpet?
This is done just to get the headcount up. They then submit the number to the state, and that’s how they calculate their funding share.
After the count, they wont give a damn if they don’t show up again.
Possibly. I'm sure this is just an effort to stem the flow.
A finger in the dike, as it were.
“A finger in the dike, as it were. “
Well, she was on it, lickety split.
She has competent advisers, I doubt she'll muff it.
She is an eager beaver ... you gotta give her that much.
She is good at outreach in our non-English speaking areas.
Ms. Parker is quite the cunning linguist.
“She is good at outreach in our non-English speaking areas. Ms. Parker is quite the cunning linguist.”
A regular silver tongued devil? I’m sure it will go down the way she wants it.
the common cunning linguist... a master of many tongues...
Oh, the “progressive” voters will lap it up.
Because of her involvement in this, Parker may be difficult to lick.
“Oh, the “progressive” voters will lap it up. Because of her involvement in this, Parker may be difficult to lick.”
Hahahaha ... no moss!
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