July 1, 201016 yr There are 23,000 high schools in the country (I think that's both public and private). A report I saw yesterday said that 50% of the nation's high school dropouts come from only 2,000 schools. So 9% of our high schools account for 50% of our dropouts. I would have lost that bet.
July 1, 201016 yr There are 23,000 high schools in the country (I think that's both public and private). A report I saw yesterday said that 50% of the nation's high school dropouts come from only 2,000 schools. So 9% of our high schools account for 50% of our dropouts. I would have lost that bet. Interesting. Would like to see where those schools are located.
July 1, 201016 yr Interesting. Would like to see where those schools are located. Complete guess, but inner cities and mining/farming communities IMO.
July 2, 201016 yr Complete guess, but inner cities and mining/farming communities IMO. Complete guess: Democrat controlled communities, IMHO.
July 2, 201016 yr Complete guess, but inner cities and mining/farming communities IMO. I'd bet against the mining/farming communities.
July 2, 201016 yr Statistics like this don't really shock me too much. After all, In the United States at the end of 2001, 10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth and the top 1% owned 38%. Source: Wikipedia
July 2, 201016 yr Don't know where all of the schools are, but I was listening to the new governor of New Jersey giving a speech about the state of the school systems in NJ. He said that the Newark school system has a 50% drop out rate. So I'm guessing those high schools are part of the 9%.
July 2, 201016 yr High school drop-out rate in major US cities at nearly 50 percent http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/scho-a03.shtml A report released Tuesday by an educational advocacy group founded by retired general and former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell finds that almost half of all public high school students in the US’ fifty largest cities fail to graduate. The report states that only 52 percent of public high school students in these cities graduate after four years, while the national average is 70 percent. Some 1.2 million public high school students drop out every year, according to researchers. The report finds that, overall, 17 of the public school systems in 50 major cities have graduation rates of 50 percent or lower, and the average graduation rate of all 50 systems is 58 percent. The findings are based on federal Department of Education statistics for the 2003-2004 school year. Detroit, by many calculations the poorest US city, graduates less than 25 percent (24.9 percent) of its public high school students. Indianapolis Public Schools graduate 30.5 percent of their students, and the figures for the Cleveland Municipal City School District and the Baltimore City Public School System are 34.1 percent and 34.6 percent respectively.
July 2, 201016 yr The problem for these schools is that they are not just trying to educate students but to address/overcome a breakdown in the familial structure in this country where too many parents do not care about their children and their children's successes.
July 2, 201016 yr The problem for these schools is that they are not just trying to educate students but to address/overcome a breakdown in the familial structure in this country where too many parents do not care about their children and their children's successes. :thumb: And before anyone goes off attacking LBBC in saying that it's not all the fault of the parents, we agree (if I may be so bold as to speak for you, LBBC). However, it goes back to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. If a child's basic needs are not being met, the chances that education can be successful diminishes.
July 6, 201016 yr Interesting, but not shocking. Public schools deserve some of the blame, but governments need to recognize that you have got to do something to help schools financially. Cutting that rate in half would help the economy and so forth and so on. They key is getting kids through the 9th grade. Schools have got to come up with interventions in side and outside school to support these at risk students. You want a shocking stat. In the city of Newport, less than 40% of the adults have a high school diploma. You need interventions and mass amounts of support for situations like this across the country. How do you expect a child to make it on their own growing up in a house that more than likely doesn't have a high school graduate. Education is not valued, and their vision is only day to day survival.
July 6, 201016 yr The problem for these schools is that they are not just trying to educate students but to address/overcome a breakdown in the familial structure in this country where too many parents do not care about their children and their children's successes. AMEN! I was going to post something similar.
July 7, 201016 yr Interesting, but not shocking. Public schools deserve some of the blame, but governments need to recognize that you have got to do something to help schools financially. Cutting that rate in half would help the economy and so forth and so on. They key is getting kids through the 9th grade. Schools have got to come up with interventions in side and outside school to support these at risk students. You want a shocking stat. In the city of Newport, less than 40% of the adults have a high school diploma. You need interventions and mass amounts of support for situations like this across the country. How do you expect a child to make it on their own growing up in a house that more than likely doesn't have a high school graduate. Education is not valued, and their vision is only day to day survival. I disagree with the bolded. Too many of the students I have seen quit school because they cannot read. Quit all of the high and pie stuff in elementary schools and make sure the kids can read!!!!!!!!!!! And sometimes the best way to help the child learn to read is make sure the parents can read. MOST of learning to read is reading at home with their parents. And when the parents can't read, the kid is going to struggle to read. When a MS/HS student can't read, they will not have success academically and might become a discipline issue which leads to dropouts. The key is their READING ABILITY!!!! Long time ago saw a stat from California that linked an increase in prison inmates to a drop in reading abilities of students. Reading abilities dropped and a few years later, incarcerated inmates went up.
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