Public Edjamakion. The Big No Fault Industry. Give Generously.
Posted on 04/10/2009 8:48:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
More than a quarter of California youngsters attending seventh grade classes in 2001-02 failed to graduate from high school in 2007, and in one major community dropouts outnumbered graduates, according to a new statistical study by the California Dropout Research Project, ..
The state's 480,595 seventh-graders had shrunken to 356,641 high school graduates, the UCSB researchers found. ..
The project asserts that California will see $24.2 billion in economic losses, both lower wages and higher government and crime costs, from that one class's dropouts and will also experience some 28,000 more violent crimes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
speaking of Rnold and pouring money down ratholes..
Governor seeking $5 billion for schools
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_12112966?source=rss
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked the federal government for $5 billion to keep California schools from laying off teachers, preserve programs and help students enter college.
The state is one of the first to request federal stimulus money from the U.S. Department of Education and could receive $3.1 billion of that money for public schools and colleges by fall.
“We’ve taken steps to protect our schools from the full brunt of our economic situation, and this funding will restore many of the difficult cuts that had to be made to education,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement Thursday.
“I’m committed to passing it directly onto schools as quickly as possible.”
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In’n’Out Edshukashun?
No Fault Standards?
Any parent that entrusts their child to public skools out here, be wary... and dig deep.
Nah it is a phony stat. They look at the number of 7th graders compare that to the number who graduate at the appropriate time. The difference DOES NOT equate to drop out rate. Some could have moved, some could have gone back to Mexico (or whatever other illegal place they came from), some may have flunked a grade, some may have graduated early, some are in jail, etc etc. These guys are lousy researchers.
AND OF COURSE THEY WANT MORE MONEY FOR A FAILED SYSTEM
Is it any wonder that California went with Obama?
I'd bet you'd see a similar correlation of states with the HIGHEST DROP OUT rates were OBAMA STATES.
Funny how gooberment entities never keep stats such that you could compare or get a handle on costs or performance, isn’t it?
it is a phony stat
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How far off is it?
How long ya been with the CTA? :-)
We have a me$$ called a public education system.
The ‘victims’ (or are they the targets?) are the children and the taxpayers.
Public Edjamakion. The Big No Fault Industry. Give Generously.
“had shrunken”?
If this is the quality of education that California produces from graduates, maybe we should be glad that more don’t do so.
Sorry to say it, but when kids drop out, it HELPS the kids who have decided to continue studying —nothing is more distracting to a potential learner than being harassed by kids who have made a decision NOT to study.
We need truck drivers, and dish-washers, and those are the kids who will perform those needed services.
Much is said about how in Japan virtually everyone graduates, and that’s MOSTLY a good thing. But there are many cases in which kids are more or less forced to graduate with them kicking and screaming the entire way.
A diploma only reaaaaaaallly means something if there is a significant number of people who CANNOT get one.
“had shrunken” - is that proper? I wonder if they have profiled the dropouts by immigration status.
Good question would like to see profile on drug use also.
And we disagree how? The point is you cannot deduce anything from the numbers they provide.
The invisible skunk in the room, is the breakdown on this by ethnicity. Every report I’ve read that addresses the issue of ethnicity with drop-out rates, finds Hispanics the top segment.
Folks like to point to second generation improvements for illegal immigrants. In some ways, that is true. It is still also true that the “educational ethic”, or whatever you wish to term it, seems to be lacking for young Hispanics.
So when you look at the costs associated with drop-outs, that may be something you’d like to know. The illegal immigration scourge on our nation has hidden costs across the board, something that seldom comes to light.
Obama family values at work.
Is it any wonder that California went with Obama?
I’d bet you’d see a similar correlation of states with the HIGHEST DROP OUT rates were OBAMA STATES.
Georgia and Mississippi have often had among the lowest graduation rates due to poor retention of black students and they are red states while North Dakota and Nebraska, traditional red states who went for McCain in 2008 are also near the top with very low drop out rates.
Washington DC, as pro-Obama as they get is also terrible at preventing drop outs.
BTW, the two top drop-out cities have HUGE hispanic school age populations.
If you drop out of school you should have to prove your are employed or you should be required to serve in the military
Oh yea, that's just what we need. Uneducated, Mexican nationals, in our military, guarding our southern border.
“TAPE CUT TWO: GRAMMAR LADY
“Here’s one that has changed because of popular culture, and I’m not sure that we will ever get it back again. (The verb) is shrink. The past is `shrank’ and the past participle is `shrunk.’ But, that movie a few years ago — `Honey I Shrunk the Kids’— used it in error and now everyone is confused about that one.”
AA: That movie title should have been, “Honey I Shrank the Kids.”
RS: Or, “Honey, I Have Shrunk the Kids.”
AA: Grammar Lady says the only way to learn irregular verbs is to memorize them - and she says the easiest way to do that is to learn them in groups that follow similar patterns.”
I agree but I think if they had to get a job or join the military instead of sit around the parents house and smoke dope there would be no more dropouts...
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