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The achievement gap faced by black and Hispanic students has also narrowed a s those students made bigger graduation rate gains than white students since 2010.
Better - but not good enough. On to 83%! (I don't say this disparagingly - it's just that there's more work to be done)
Education is a tremendous resource. Dollars invested in educating the future adults of society are dollars that provide a many-fold return on that investment. Kudos to those working to this end! (and a bane on those who work tirelessly to hinder education in this country - you know who you are)
The public school system in Kansas City only graduates around 2/3rds....but since the private schools are good, the city is a democratic bastion and the affected kids are poor and mostly minority.....the purveying attitude is to ignore the problem.
They keep getting "provisional accreditation" based on "improvement" but around the country we've seen similar school districts generate improvement by actually letting the worst students just drop out and not be counted...or telling them to be sick on test day etc.
It's pretty much a disgrace.
Please note I don't blame the teachers, they can't force anybody to do homework, show up to class etc.
I think parents are mostly the issue when kids don't graduate/graduate on time/do well in school/care about school. I'm not sure how to fix issues at home but even in my nice wealthy largely white town where like 99% graduate high school, that small 1% came from worse off families, maybe with an alcoholic or single parent, parents you just know from going to school with the kid for 13 years don't care and aren't that great, etc. This was the case for the few in my year that did not graduate.
There will never be a 100% graduation rate. Even if we fix every issue, some kids just don't care enough about education. There will always be dropouts IMO, at the least.
I don't think the Department of Education should be patting themselves on the back for an earth shattering 0.9% improvement year-over-year. Also, the improvement can also be attributable solely to a slight smarter class of seniors compared to the previous year. However, I am glad that the improvement seems to be a trend. Go NYC public schools!
I think parents are mostly the issue when kids don't graduate/graduate on time/do well in school/care about school. I'm not sure how to fix issues at home but even in my nice wealthy largely white town where like 99% graduate high school, that small 1% came from worse off families, maybe with an alcoholic or single parent, parents you just know from going to school with the kid for 13 years don't care and aren't that great, etc. This was the case for the few in my year that did not graduate.
There will never be a 100% graduation rate. Even if we fix every issue, some kids just don't care enough about education. There will always be dropouts IMO, at the least.
I agree. Most people don't understand that in horrible public schools, students cannot learn. Why? Because the other students are so damn unruly that teachers spend 1/2 of the class time to settle down the wild animals masquerading as humans, losers proactively impede the learning of serious students, and good students are subjected to verbal and physical harassment for being just that. The parents of those kids might simply don't know any better to rear and discipline them properly, they condone such activities, or they are busting their butt working multiple jobs and don't have time to watch over the kids as carefully. But it's a huge problem. Ask me how I know.
My point is that, when we talk about "privilege," it's not always about daddy buying you a new BMW, boat or Seadoo, or paying an exorbitant private school tuition, hiring a tutor or paying for all the extracurricular activities. It's also about having an environment where you can actually learn in peace (if you want to). Some kids really don't have it, and we are asking them to compete with normal kids? For many, that's a mission impossible. In that kind of school, you'd be lucky to get 2 kids going to decent 4-year college from a class of 30. Seriously.
My god, what would we do if less than 82% of kids could identify all the layers of an onion skin under a microscope?
high school is probably as big a waste of time as anything in our modern world.
They can use the onion skill after they factor a polynomial (Another skill that is worthless for all but a few).
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