August 19, 2008

6 of 10 Students Drop Out of LA High Schools

We should be thanking the bureaucrats in the Democrat-run public school system out there (and in every major inner city). They're doing yeoman's work:

Students in this inner-city school say gang members frequently disrupt class, and teachers spend much of their time dealing with troublemakers.

The biggest problem here, however, may be what you don't see - all the dropouts.

With a 58 percent dropout rate, Jefferson has the worst dropout record in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest.

"It's horrendous," said Debra Duardo, director of the dropout prevention and recovery program at the district, which averages 33.6 percent dropouts.

While half the students typically quit inner-city schools nationwide, Jefferson is at the lower end of the spectrum of so-called "dropout factories" because of a concentration of factors that are rarely all present at schools in other cities.

From diploma factories to drop-out factories within two decades. YES WE CAN!

These disciplined, well-read, well-rounded children are the future of America. Maybe we should just tithe all of our incomes to the government. After all, spending more money on schools always helps improve teacher salaries test scores, unwarranted tenure graduation rates and ultimately gives teachers' unions students the entitlements and pensions education they need to get paid for failing at their jobs succeed in a cruel, complicated world.

YES WE CAN!

Here's another LOL:

A shift in demographics has spurred racial divisions that peaked three years ago when blacks and Latinos clashed in several bloody melees.

A quarter-century ago, Latino students totaled 31 percent of the student body; now they account for almost 90 percent. Blacks comprise about 10 percent and a sliver are Asian or white.

Ah, these lucky students are even getting the benefit of a diverse, multicultural education. What a wonderful treat for our country.

YES WE CAN!

By Good Lt. at 07:05 AM | |