One million high school dropouts in U.S. each year
(article link) “When more than one million students a year drop out of high school, it’s more than a problem, it’s a catastrophe,” retired General Colin Powell, founder of America’s Promise Alliance. “It’s time for a national ‘call to arms,’ because we cannot afford to let nearly one-third of our kids fail.”His statement of urgency came during a press conference announcing the release of a study that details why nearly one in three U.S. high school students drops out before graduating and how his group plans to reverse the downward spiral of retention.
“Our economic and national security is at risk when we fail to educate the leaders and the workforce of the future,” added Mr. Powell, whose wife Mrs. Alma Powell serves as the chair of the Alliance.
“Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation,” prepared by Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, was released on April 1.
The study found urban schools in metropolitan areas surrounding 35 of the nation’s largest cities have lower graduation rates than schools in nearby suburban communities. Disparities in urban-suburban graduation rates had gaps as large as 35 percentage points in many cases. Approximately 1.2 million students drop out each year–about 7,000 every school day, or one every 26 seconds. Nearly half of all Black and Native American students are expected not to graduate with their classes, while less than six in 10 Hispanic students will.
“The number one predictor of a young person’s future success is whether they graduate from high school,” said Mrs. Powell. “But just conferring a diploma is not enough. Students today must graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in college, work and life. We must invest in the whole child, and that means finding solutions that involve the family, the school and the community.”
Why do students drop out? According to interviews conducted with high school dropouts by Civic Enterprises, nearly half of dropouts said the main reason they left school was because classes were not interesting. Nearly 70 percent said they were not motivated to work hard and two-thirds would have worked harder if more were demanded of them. Approximately one-third left for personal reasons (to get a job, become a parent…..
To become a parent?!! Was the mutherfucker who wrote this article high when he wrote it? To become a parent? Helloooo they were too busy knocking boots while playing hooky from school better known as “keep a nigga” sex which 9 months later means giving birth to a “keep a nigga” baby!
or care for a family member) and one-third cited “failing in school” as a major factor. Seventy percent were confident they could have graduated,
Oh so we are suppose believe that Lekisha Alazae Jenkins could have indeed graduated never mind the fact that “F” were dotting her report card for years.
including a majority with low GPAs, the study found. More than 80 percent said their chances of staying in school would have increased if classes were more interesting and provided opportunities for real-world learning.The majority said higher expectations from teachers and parents and improved supervision in the classroom would have helped keep them in school.
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This same old shit about grasping at something anything to explain why Negros are falling further and further behind.
Not to beat down my daughter again but she is the best example of why this piece is bullshit.
She is 20, with second child on board, she is too fucken lazy to even get her GED.
She is not failing to get her education because of “lack of expectations” or opportunities. She is like too many of these Negro kids, they are simply fucking lazy.
What the fuck, do we scrap the public school system and hire individual tutors for each of these damm kids?
This article is basically saying “we need to throw more taxpayer money into these schools” and I’m thinking fuck that.
I’m sick of this shit. These kids are pissing away free education and totally ignoring the fact that “education equals freedom.”
You mean to tell me that looking at their nappy head welfare queen mom, sitting on her ass watching Judge Mathis is not motivation enough to decide for themselves that being a permanent welfare case and babies daddy chaser is not the future they want!
Back in the day it was illegal for Negros to be educated, it was amazing how they managed to find a way around that little hurdle.
Now these little juvenile delinquents droupouts are bitching that teachers, parents, society did not motivate them enough. Give me a fucken break!
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April 16th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Well Snoop, it also doesn’t help that the Liberal Teachers Unions have a choke hold on what is being passed as teaching in the schools today. They spend more time showing the kids how to put condoms on bananas (too bad they aren’t at least taught where the condom really goes), how to be a good protester at the local Code Pink rallies, and how Global Worming is the ultimate “religion”. Kids are no longer taught how to read, write, add and subtract. No learning factual history. It’s all that Liberal revisionist crap. No basic skills whatsoever. Add that to the average “I don’t have to do nuthin I don’t want to do” attitude of kids today and it’s a wonder we have any graduating at all.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
My grandchildren will, in all likelyhood, be homeschooled.
But - I have to speak in defense of some teachers.Two of dearest friends in the world (Sylv and Tim) are/were dedicated, brilliant, kind and good grade-school teachers. They could have easily done a whole lot in their lives, and made more money with less work. But they were/are gifted teachers. I am proud to know them and passionate in their defense. And I know they cannot be the only ones.
In this capitalistic society it amazes me that we pay plumbers and welders etc. and still expect good people to flock it. It is a job that the bulk of society does not pay as much as they pay the guy who works on the toilets. If we want high caliber teachers, we should pay them like we pay other valued professions. And then we can hold them to equally high standards! Maybe parents should individually contract with their child’s teachers, and pay for the costs themselves.
Meanwhile, I am so thankful I had nuns to each me. And parents who thought children were their slaves! LOL.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Mistake; I meant to say “it amazes me that we pay teachers less then we pay plumbers and welders, etc.”
April 17th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Oh I’m not implying there are no good teachers left out there Mrs. Snoop. I have family members that are teachers. There are those that are trying to continue to give our kids a real education. It’s the Unions that have degraded a good many of our classrooms into full blown Socialist Indoctrination Centers. At least here in the South most schools are standing firm against much of the Nanny State nonsense, but it’s slowly creeping in. On the East and West Coast and in the large cities…not so good. If there were any way possible to get rid of the Teachers Unions you would see much more quality education taking place…and alot more money would be available to pay the teachers that right now is going into Leftist causes straight from the Unions.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I agree that Unions have become self-serving refuges for the worst of practices and employees. However (I am cursed with seeing both sides to most things), back when most unions were formed (I don’t know about most teacher’s unions) there was a very good reason. The employers were using economic clout in ways that very closely resembled slavery.
Now, you must know that my maternal grandather was a union orginizer in the 40’s, for the rail road. And my mother, who was raised around back-room deals and alcholic conduct, hated - I mean HATED - all unions. So I know how bad a union can screw things up - believe me. However, my previously mentioned friend Tim was a union leader in the teacher’s union in Kansas. He is the mildest of people, not a greedy bone in his whole body. All he wants is fairness.
So, like so much in life, I think there are two sides to the union equation. In some cases, they helped people who were not powerful to stand up to more powerful people that would otherwise use them clear up for their own gain, then toss them away like a used Kleenix. On the other hand, many MANY unions are useless to most of their members (except the dredges) and only get busy or interested if it makes their leaders more powerful or more money (usually both). In many cases, unions have become just like the evil they were established to fight. Why does that happen so often in life - do you suppose?
I read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” when I was 16 (at an all-girl Catholic highschool) and it had a pround impact on me. I believe very much in a free market and capitalism (actually, I’d love to see a world where everyone FREELY helped each other out all the time, but that is not happening). But I also believe that good people need to band together and fight evil, for all our good. We just have to be very careful not to become exactly like the evil we are fighting……