Only 1 of 2 students graduate high school in US cities: study

herekitty · #1 04-02-2008, 10:47 PM

I'm hoping this was an AFD's joke, but I doubt it. I have heard that the general graduation rate is down to ~75% but this still kind of shocked me.
Also, I promise I'm not a grammar nazi in general but I couldn't help but notice that this article has at least a couple of errors that I don't think a professional writer should be making. Love that irony.
Starting a sentence with and?
then this:
"black and native American student's have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a high school diploma."
Where's Bort? I demand immediate commiseration at the decline of US society.

Only 1 of 2 students graduate high school in US cities: study - Yahoo! News

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Tue Apr 1, 2:45 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday.

In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America Promise Alliance also showed that the high school graduation rate -- finishing 12 grades of school -- in big cities falls to as low as just 34.6 percent in Baltimore, Maryland, and barely over 40 percent for the troubled Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland.

And it said that black and native American student's have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a high school diploma.

"Our analysis finds that graduating from high school in America's largest cities amounts, essentially, to a coin toss," the study said.

"Only about one-half (52 percent) of students in the principal school systems of the 50 largest cities complete high school with a diploma."

Based on 2003-2004 data, the report said that across the country the graduation average for public school students is 69.9 percent, with the best success rate in suburbs -- 74.9 percent -- and rural districts -- 73.2 percent.

Asian-Americans score the highest graduation rate, at 80 percent, with whites at 76.2 percent and Hispanics at 57.8 percent.

Women graduate at a much higher rate than men, 73.6 percent to 66.0 percent.

In the country's city schools, the study found that in urban areas generally, just 60.4 percent graduate, and in the principal school districts of the top 50 cities, barely half graduate.

Detroit, Michigan's main school district scored a graduation rate of 24.9 percent.

New York, the country's largest city, has a graduation rate for its main school district of 45.2 percent, and Los Angeles, the second largest, of 45.3 percent.

Only five of the principal school districts topped the national average.

fagarielina · #2 04-02-2008, 10:57 PM

GOOD
AT THIS POINT ITS LESS CONDITIONING
good for them!
theyre finally catching on!
what do you expect!?

herekitty · #3 04-02-2008, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by fagarielina

GOOD
AT THIS POINT ITS LESS CONDITIONING
good for them!
theyre finally catching on!
what do you expect!?

I knew you would say something like this but I think you're overlooking the fact that this basically sentences them to a life of poverty. I realize that may not be such a bad thing and you advocate something like that but I don't believe most of them are doing this as a conscious choice. They're doing it because our education system/society has failed them. Yes, I know you'll say that's a good thing and that it's not designed to help them in the first place but I don't necessarily agree.

fagarielina · #4 04-02-2008, 11:12 PM

they never made it clear that "flipping burgers" is actually HARD WORK
apparently the idea is to "apply yourself" in school to get a cushy job?
but thats just an idealised view too
its designed to "fail" you
you dont have to agree
its a sad point of view

im sentenced toa life of poverty too
its not the greatest thing but llooooooovelove will prevaail

herekitty · #5 04-02-2008, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by fagarielina

they never made it clear that "flipping burgers" is actually HARD WORK
apparently the idea is to "apply yourself" in school to get a cushy job?
but thats just an idealised view too
its designed to "fail" you
you dont have to agree
its a sad point of view

im sentenced toa life of poverty too
its not the greatest thing but llooooooovelove will prevaail

I hope you're right about love, but faga, there's a reason slaves weren't allowed to read. and there's a reason you and I are having this discussion online right now. I'm not saying they need to apply themselves to get a cushy job, I'm just saying that reading and writing are essential skills imo. you'll never get to enter into debates like this if you don't have them. you won't get to read the books, pamphlets & information that have led you to what you are and me to what I am. it doesn't hurt to be able to count either. and as someone who advocates er, overhauling the system, I should think you'd appreciate it when people are able to get cushy jobs where they essentially screw their evil, rich employers out of money. and can instead spend their free time thinking about society's shortcomings and how to fix them. most working class people don't have that luxury.