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L.A.: http://unitela.com/slcnewsmar05/html/dropout.html
Harvard researchers found an overall graduation rate of 71 percent for 2002. Graduation rates for non-Asian minority students were significantly lower, with a 57 percent rate for blacks, 60 percent for Latinos and 52 percent for American Indians. For minority males, the figures were even worse: 50 percent for blacks, 54 percent for Latinos and 46 percent for American Indians. Nearly 75 percent of the district's 746,000 students are Latino. In the LAUSD, just 39 percent of Latino students and 47 percent of African-American students graduate in four years. To comply with requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, districts in California are asked to have an 82.5 percent graduation rate. If they haven't reached that, they are expected to improve their current rate by at least one-tenth of 1 percent. Even so, the LAUSD failed to comply this year because the districtwide graduation rate fell to 67.7 percent from 72 percent. New York: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/si.../rising_rates/ While nationwide 50 percent of minority youth graduate within four years, in New York the figure stands at 35 percent. Too many children are being left behind. |
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MAybe they should try studying more.
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Too many children are being left behind. [/ QUOTE ] Graduating from high school is not even close to difficult. So, I've never excepted that children that fail are being left behind. They're falling behind on their own merits. |
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I thought that a big part of the No Child Left Behind initiative was to increase graduation rates. I know Ted Kennedy has since criticized the Bush administation's educations policies, pariticularly lack of funding for No Child Left Behind, but when I saw Bush and Kennedy making nice-nice on this thing I knew we were getting hosed, as so often happens when Democrats and Republicans agree wholeheartedly on something.
I agree that many, if not most, are falling behind on their own merits. But Chicago has recently made progress in slowing drop-out rates. To me, it's a bigger crisis than homeland security. |
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The point of No Child Left Behind was to pass a bill.
Some words were on it but they weren't important. |
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Good point. I mean yours, not the point of No Child Left Behind.
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[ QUOTE ] Too many children are being left behind. [/ QUOTE ] Graduating from high school is not even close to difficult. So, I've never excepted that children that fail are being left behind. They're falling behind on their own merits. [/ QUOTE ] And what exactly do you mean by that? You don't get it Dynasty. It's easy for you to graduate from high school, it was easy for me, it's easy for everyone who posts on this message board. How easy do you think it would be though, if your dad left before you were born, your mother had AIDs and you were often hungry for lack of food; would graduating from high school still be "not even close to difficult"? You are where you are today because you were fortunate, if you were born into the wrong circumstances there is nothing you could do about it, you'd be acting the same as they do dropping out of school and wouldn't be able to be so arrogant. |
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You are where you are today because you were fortunate, if you were born into the wrong circumstances there is nothing you could do about it, you'd be acting the same as they do dropping out of school and wouldn't be able to be so arrogant. [/ QUOTE ] That isn't absolutely true, Bruiser--although granted it would be much more difficult. I STRONGLY suggest that you read the autobiography of Booker T. Washington. Through sheer force of will and application he overcame obstacles that make the obstacles you list appear like like a walk in the park by comparison. Seriously, you should read it; it is short, and you may come away from it holding a new appreciation of the powers of the human spirit to overcome the most seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and to achieve true greatness. Reading that book was a humbling experience for me--and at times it even brought tears to my eyes. It should be in every high school curriculum. |
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I will put the book on my list of books to read but it in no way diminishes my point.
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I will put the book on my list of books to read but it in no way diminishes my point. [/ QUOTE ] Yes it does; contrary examples do indeed diminish absolute statements when the examples prove those statements to be in error. you wrote: [ QUOTE ] You are where you are today because you were fortunate, if you were born into the wrong circumstances there is nothing you could do about it, you'd be acting the same as they do dropping out of school and wouldn't be able to be so arrogant. [/ QUOTE ] Very possibly so in many cases; but very wrongly stated as a hard and fast rule. |
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