California again rated #1 (Orange: agriculture, car, educational)

[waffleiron1968]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

California high school grad rate drops with new methodology
82.7 percent in Class 2017 got their diplomas; racial, ethnic gaps are wide:

https://edsource.org/2018/california...odology/600706

Ah now I understand.

[TCROX]

LOL

[ketch89]

Originally Posted by TCROX

YEP- The number of uneducated and those that did not finish high school is directly proportional to the salary increases of teachers and administrators- the more money gets "allotted" , the worse it gets- just like the crime and vagrancy "problems"... no way to elect anyone to change things I guess.

What kind of psycho/sociopath thinks poor teachers who barely scrape by are better for kids than decently paid ones? ...

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by ketch89

What kind of psycho/sociopath thinks poor teachers who barely scrape by are better for kids than decently paid ones? ...

Obviously decent pay is not helping.

[Pyramidsurf]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Thomas Edison - 3 months of high school

Wilber and Orville Wright - high school drop outs

Srinivasa Ramanujan - failed out of college (basically due to boredom with subject matter)

Michael Faraday - basically had no formal education of any kind yet managed to become one of history’s most influential minds in all things electrical, and more (He discovered electro-magnetic induction, he discovered benzene, figured out the shape of magnetic fields, discovered metallic nano-particles (thought to be the birth of nano-science)

Gregor Mendel - a nearly completely uneducated monk who discovered genetics.

And we didn’t even go to high school grads who started college and then dropped out ... like:
Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg ...

Are you honestly trying to compare yourself to people who were naturally smarter than 99.99999% of the population as a justification for dropping out of school?

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Pyramidsurf

Are you honestly trying to compare yourself to people who were naturally smarter than 99.99999% of the population as a justification for dropping out of school?

Lmao ... you claimed that every drop out you ever met said they were bored by school ... and you claimed that was BS. I didn’t compare myself to geniuses ... I completely deflated your garbage that school doesn’t bore many, geniuses and average alike ... and that of those who drop out you will find exemplary examples of excellence. I linked numerous references to experts in education and psychology who wrote about how boring school is for so many students.

Completing or walking away from prescriptive contemporary schooling doesn’t prove anything about intelligence, drive, creativity, integrity, honesty, or talent. It also doesn’t prove whether the individual is educated or not. It shows only that the individual was willing or not to go with prescriptive flow.

[Finper]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Lmao ... you claimed that every drop out you ever met said they were bored by school ... and you claimed that was BS. I didn’t compare myself to geniuses ... I completely deflated your garbage that school doesn’t bore many, geniuses and average alike ... and that of those who drop out you will find exemplary examples of excellence. I linked numerous references to experts in education and psychology who wrote about how boring school is for so many students.

Completing or walking away from prescriptive contemporary schooling doesn’t prove anything about intelligence, drive, creativity, integrity, honesty, or talent. It also doesn’t prove whether the individual is educated or not. It shows only that the individual was willing or not to go with prescriptive flow.

Yea that's just what Jose said when he dropped out at 15 to run with MS 13

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Finper

Yea that's just what Jose said when he dropped out at 15 to run with MS 13

Heh ... and I dropped out at 16. Did I run with MS13?

Here are a few others that didn’t “run with MS13”

Richard Branson dropped out at 15

The Virgin Group founder is an international powerhouse currently worth about $4.9 billion, according to Forbes.

Branson founded his first business, Student magazine, after dropping out of high school at 15 and has spoken out against the university system on his blog.

Nearly 50 years after dropping out, he has overseen approximately 500 companies, with his brand currently on somewhere between 200 and 300 of them.


Nicole Kidman dropped out at 17

Aretha Franklin dropped out at 15


Joe Lewis dropped out at 15

Lewis dropped out of high school at 15 to run his father's catering business, Tavistock Banqueting, and is currently worth about $5.3 billion, according to Forbes.

The businessman — who works from his yacht most of the year — owns a planned community in Lake Nona, near Orlando, which is now one of the fastest-growing developments in America and houses a medical city that includes the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and Health Sciences Campus, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, the Orlando VA Medical Center, and a University of Florida Research and Academic Center.

As the main investor in Tavistock Group, Lewis owns more than 200 companies, according to Forbes, including London Premiership soccer team Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs), a stake in UK's largest pub operator, Mitchell's & Butlers plc, and approximately 135 restaurants and various resorts throughout the world.

He also has a covetable art collection that includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon.


Philip Emeagwali dropped out at 13

Called an "unsung hero of the internet," the supercomputer scientist dropped out of high-school in Nigeria due to war conditions and lack of tuition money.

In 1987, Emeagwali came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once. The record-breaking experiment was a practical and inexpensive way to use machines to speak to each other all over the world.

The discovery earned him the IEEE Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, and he has since been hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet, according to Time.

[WizardOfRadical]

California is a land of extremes

You can from highly educated populations in Silicon Valley, to poorly educated places like Stockton in a couple hours drive.

In Silicon Valley, the Coffee Barista has a Bachelors in Brit Lit. In Stockton, just graduating high school is a big deal. It means you are employable.

[AmericaBravoCharles]

Originally Posted by WizardOfRadical

California is a land of extremes

You can from highly educated populations in Silicon Valley, to poorly educated places like Stockton in a couple hours drive.

In Silicon Valley, the Coffee Barista has a Bachelors in Brit Lit. In Stockton, just graduating high school is a big deal. It means you are employable.

Sad, but true