Of the more than 98,000 students who began their freshman year in Virginia's high school Class of 2004 -- the first required to pass state Standards of Learning exams to graduate -- fewer than 70,000 are expected to receive their diplomas this month. A child-advocacy group charged yesterday that the exams are partly to blame for the gap.
In other words,
28,000 will drop out....29% that is...or 1 in every 3.44 students will NOT graduate high school this year in Virginia.
Of those who do graduate, what percent do you think would pass without intense tutoring/ prep?
Are you as scared as I am?
In other words,
28,000 will drop out....29% that is...or 1 in every 3.44 students will NOT graduate high school this year in Virginia.
Of those who do graduate, what percent do you think would pass without intense tutoring/ prep?
Are you as scared as I am?
posted by Aki at
10:08 AM
5 Comments:
doesnt mean they will drop out, could be just summer school.
better that then uneducated/illiterate people get a token hs degree, which then degrades our work force, as if its not bad enough as it is.
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Anonymous, at 10:49 AM
Yes, I agree, but unfortunately you can't do much without a high school certificate in here. Even jobs at grocery stores and gas stations require high school diplomas. You can't even join the military (the traditional place for wayward kids)...so what do u suggest people without HS diplomas do?
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Anonymous, at 11:49 AM
take a GED.
get technical training.
if you cant graduate from a public HS in america..i dont know what to tell you, coddling isnt the answer.
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Anonymous, at 5:47 PM
Scared?
This shite has been keeping me up @ nite 4 years and it frightens me to death.
When I was 17 I was staying w/my grandparents in Yugoslavia, there the kids were already in school in August, and I was hanging out with a group of them that here in the USA you'd think were the ones from Shop Class.
One day I asked to have a look at their textbooks thinking they'd be way behind us, and well, they were doing Analytical Geometry at just under Grad School level.
Oopsies.
I think there are several larger issues @ werk here.
Right now there is a large hue and cry over the issue of US jobs taking a Passage To India via outsourcing, and I personally would find this upsetting if it weren't for the fact that for the last 20 years, since, oh, the Reagan Administration, we as a society have deliberately gone out of our way to dismantle our K-12 educational system.
This example you cite is a symptom of this, but not the cause.
If you think this is going on in just Virginia, then you're smoking low-grade crack.
There's a fucking ***reason*** slave owners dinnt want their property to pick up reading skillz, g.
What I have concluded, after watching this go on, is that this is exactly what our leadership in this country wants.
It's not so much that people in the USA USA USA are stupid, they're not, but if their critical thinking skills are stunted @ an early age, then it's real easy to foist idears on them like cigarettes will do you no harm, fast food is good for you and won't make you obese, American Idol & Friends is worth dropping whatever you're doing and dashing home to, your elected officials and corporations have your best interests @ <3, FAUX News is fair and balanced, and Dubya is right up there with Jefferson and Lincoln.
Do ya see what I'm saying Vern,?
do ya?
What these fat, bloated, greedy, corrupt, scumbags, (Karl Rove you have a call on the White Courtesy telephone), don't seem 2 get is that this is an ultimately self-defeating strategy, that over time will come to bite them on the ass, and hard too.
I'm no John Galt, or Tyler Durden, for that matter, but I take comfort in the fact that their days are numbered.
I'm waiting them out until there game ends and comes crashing down on their heads.
It won't be pretty and sadly a *lot* more people will be hurt by them, but once it's over, we can start to rebuild.
As far as the cashiering jobs go, nary a one of them in 7-11, McDonald's, Wal-Mart will be employed by about the end of this decade, beginning of the next one, due to the widespread implementation and use of RFID technology, so that's kind of a moot point not worth discussing.
What is important to talk about is where all those people are going to go once their jobs have been automated/outsourced out of existence? because they sure as shit are going to being writing the code for to make those RFIDs werk, homes.
Under the present set-up and rules of the game we have here in the 1st Werld they *will* starve 2 death.
Let's talk about that.
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Anonymous, at 6:40 PM
Get realistic..many people who can't graduate from HS can not get a GED.
Great insight re: slavery...good connection. Will comment more later.
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Anonymous, at 7:03 PM
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