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What they mean is that the dropout rate today is higher than it was when the parents of current highschoolers were in high school, on average. This is hardly evenly distributed across the population, but we’re not allowed to mention that.
You can’t “hold schools accountable” for what the KIDS are doing. Those kids are not dropping out because school is any more tedious than it ever was. They’re dropping out because they’ve found that they can already get whatever they want without working for it, so why should they finish school?
Hold schools accountable? When, and how, can we hold parents accountable.
Pathetic, when you consider today’s high school diploma is the equivalent of an eighth grade education 25 years ago.
Don’t worry kids! President Obama will take care of you.
What they don't say is how many enroll in distance learning or get their GED. I doubt there are any stats on that.
They also don't have the stats on how many free-thinking, conservative and Christian students get expelled because of zero tolerance and not wanting to go along with the groupthink.
It looks like bad news on the surface, but they're not reporting the true story. Government education is a failure and these kids (and their parents) know it.
It just prepares them for a life of reliance on the welfare state. I bet they don’t have a problem getting out of bed to go buy drugs, knock up a couple of the neighborhood teenagers or vote for Obama.
Well, your schools may be failing, but at least they’re not lying about it like ours are. We dont teach the kids either, but they still get record marks and passes every year because we make the exams easier.
I was talking to a University Professor here in the UK a few months back and he stated unequivocally that the current British generation will be the first in 1500 years to know less than parents do. Putting on my devils advocate hat, I made one of the usual liberal answers, namely that the emphasis now is not on knowing facts (after all you can always look them up) but on knowing how to find out facts. His reply to that was “well, it isn’t working then”.
Actually, if you look a little deeper, you'll see the decline started with the creation of the Department of (re)Education in 1978, thank you Jimmuh Carter, a Democrat controlled Congress and the NEA....
This is statistical manipulation
More graduated twenty and thirty years ago becasue there were less illegals and less of an underclass twenty to thirty years ago.
The bitter fruits of four decades of neoliberal socialistic experimentation are dropping off the trees and rotting around us.
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I would suggest it has less to do with acts of Congress than it does with acts of politicizing the public school system. More people will stay in public school when there is an agreed upon value system. When you have to parrot Dim talking points to even stay out of trouble no less pass.
I just call that “Job Security”. (For my kids.)
But since half those dropouts have parents who never went to school in Mexico, its not that surprising.
Stating the info in these terms is totally fallacious. My likelyhood of HS graduation was 100% and that of my kids the same. The likelyhood of my kids earning advanced college degrees is also 100%. That the media is addressing my and mine through the use of "your" is both completely incorrect and extremely annoying. No wonder the MSM has no cred.
And, of course, the US spends most per student on primary and secondary education of any nation in the world.
Yet, somehow, inexplicably, more $ is needed.
The problems are obvious. Lack of competition (choice), lack of a competitive labor situation, increasing federal intrusion, and an increased focus on advancing left wing politics in the classroom.
Bad teachers are kept on while good teachers are not rewarded. Private schools require parents to pay for the schooling of their children on top of what they pay to the local school district regardless if their children attend or not.
Anyways, I cannot think of a better effort by the left to dumb down generations of citizens, in order to limit their future economic opportunities and make them more dependent on socialist programs.
The sad thing is that this nation shows no signs of reversing the negative trends in public education. We know what the problem is, but we pretend that something else is really the problem, and then we throw yet more money into the underperforming, disgusting, educational bureaucracy.
Good news they don't have to work or give a sh!t...just get off their collective arses every four years to vote in a new Socialist for President......and every two years to keep the current socialists in congress.
Ah yes, the Obama/Democratic constituency.
Just imagine, our next president may be decided based upon what these geniuses think...assuming that they actually do think.