Posted on 04/09/2006 11:42:31 AM PDT by The Lion Roars
It's lunchtime at Shelbyville High School, 30 miles southeast of Indianapolis, Indiana, and more than 100 teenagers are buzzing over trays in the cafeteria. Like high schoolers everywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own. Shawn Sturgill, 18, had a clique of his own at Shelbyville High, a dozen or so friends who sat at the same long bench in the hallway outside the cafeteria. They were, Shawn says, an average crowd. These days the bench is mostly empty. Of his dozen friends, Shawn says just one or two are still at Shelbyville High.
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The article says the dropout rate has been approximately 30% for two decades.
Afterward, encourage them to join the military to help pay for college. Coast Guard, Marines, Army..you know better than anyone which branch they'd fit right into.
Want to keep more kids in school?
1. Stop paying kids to have babies and be able to get on the public dole for life. Have a baby then you have to pay to feed it, cloth it, house it and take care of it medically.
2. Change the schools back to a place of learning not the hang out place that they are now. Get rid of inflated grades. You flunk then you get an F.
3. Fire the teaches who know less about the subject and text book than the kids do.
I have two kids in high school and see what's going on in our public schools.
Excerpt from the article:
"In today's data-happy era of accountability, testing and No Child Left Behind, here is the most astonishing statistic in the whole field of education: an increasing number of researchers are saying that nearly one out of three public high school students won't graduate, not just in Shelbyville but around the nation."
IF they are willing to ADMIT THIS, you KNOW it's WORSE THAN THAT! BTW this is not linked to a particular race or economic class - public schools don't work. It's time to ABOLISH them and give everyone VOUCHERS!
That's a great point. Kids have no boundaries, no expectations.
These kids need to be challenged and encouraged and held to higher standards. We reap what we sow.
Socialism?... thats whats wrong.. Socialism is slavery by government..
And the High Schools are the chief preaparation for political socialism..
Followed by the colleges..
Democracy(as a government) is taught at many levels and democracy is the disease that causes socialism.. Education and Re-education camps.. promoting sedition to this Republic..
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams (1814)
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English. They don't even teach English anymore.
Private schools are great but they are very expensive. I would guess that most families cannot begin to afford the tuition, especially if they have more than one child. We have 3 kids in Catholic school and pay over 25,000 in tuition. It is a huge sacrifice that I hope will be worth it. If we were not able to afford it, I would volunteer as much as possible at the public school. It provides a lot of information that can help your kids get a good education and avoid many of the potential problems.
Please provide a link to a high school that does not teach English.
The best solution is to get the government completely out of the equation and let schools compete. Bust the teachers' union and make education completely free-market. Cut taxes so people can afford to send their kids to the best schools possible.
Marx perpetrated one of the great myths on mankind since Homer. The end of history! The state shall wither away! By Zeus' pregnant thigh there has been little to compare in modern times.
Sorry, can't find one.
We also have data that the longer Americans stay in public schools, the worse they do. Dropping out isn't the worst problem.
Worked pretty good too eh!...
Since communism IS socialism and all of URP, Canada, Russia, China, and a good many other places are totally socialist enclaves in one form or another.. Socialism has been bought hook line and sinker.. The entire democrat party and part of the republican party is/are socialists..
Pretty good for a myth.. the myth has been bought as fact.. and there are few to say Socialism is slavery by government.. Worse SOME WANT to be enslaved by their government.. BIG Givernment republicans in particular..
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