Dropout Nation

[TCO]

Yeah...they are. And San Diego, just smiles and takes it. I remember a 100 million dollar recycling plant that was built and was supposed to cost the taxpayers nothing. But it turned out that the city could not supply suitable quality trash and they got stuck for the whole cost. buncha shmucks. And noone cares since the city is so rich.

[Drake Tungsten]

All of you *****ing about the American school system don't know what the **** you're talking about. The vaunted Japanese school system doesn't even require kids to go to high school and many kids drop out or never even go to high school, choosing a technical school instead. Like GP said, some kids just aren't cut out for high school and the statistics are going to reflect that even if they don't match up with your naive ideals...

[TCO]

Originally posted by Oerdin


I doubt DanS gets it but Karl Rove did indeed start distributing a "Talking Points Memo" to all the major news outlets in order that his propaganda (or spin if you prefer to call it that) could hit all the major news media at once. Some call that inspired politiciing but I consider that partisan use of federal funds and it says something about the main stream media that they just reprint those talking points so often.

I love my lord and master. Hope I get to see him on Fox and Friends sometime, soon.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
All of you *****ing about the American school system don't know what the **** you're talking about. The vaunted Japanese school system don't even require kids to go to high school and many kids drop out or never even go to high school, choosing a technical school instead. Like GP said, some kids just aren't cut out for high school and the statistics are going to reflect that even if they don't match up with your naive ideals...

I think it was only as late as 1950, that total HS grad rate rose above 50%. So spare us with the Blackboard Jungle angst.

(I made up the statistic above...but you get my drift. )

[flash9286]

If American parents actually took a interest in their kids education and pushed them to do their homework and etc, education would be a lot better in America.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by flash9286
If American parents actually took a interest in their parents education and pushed them to do their homework and etc, education would be a lot better in America.

Yeah, I hate it when grandparents refuse to do their homework.

[TCO]

NASA sux. Fire those guys and let them walk the streets and get free market jobs.

[Barnabas]

Can they go to the military at least?

[TCO]

Only the best ones. Rest need to get real jobs.

[Dr Strangelove]

Just out of curiosity, how do they calculate graduation rates in the presence of the relatively high mobility of our population? If you say that 1/3 of the students that entered a high school don't receive diplomas are you taking into consideration the number who moved away during the intervening four years? The only accurate way to measure the high school dropout rate would be to track a group of students from start to finish regardless of whether they stayed in the school district, moved, died, etc.

[TCO]

I hope you're not as dumb with your patients. Just get the census information for number of people of a certain age and then total the number of high school grads. DUH! Or you could track each person. If you were a moron.

[Timexwatch]

Stop acting like the sailor that you are.

[KrazyHorse]

many kids drop out or never even go to high school, choosing a technical school instead

Technical school

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Can they go to the military at least?

High school dropouts are not accepted into the military.

[Dinner]

So let's assume that dropping out is a bad thing and that we should do something to deter it. Let's also leave aside how to fix our crappy school systems (and I use the plural because there are different standards in each state). What is the best way to deter kids from dropping out?

Time magazine came up with some interesting ideas among them are 1) For dropouts under 18 make it so they can't have a driver's licence 2) Deny work permits to kids under 18 who don't go to school. Are those good ideas?