Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:33 am
Yes and no, Ferno. They tell you only what you ask them. The rumors about the 'special employee meetings in the back' are completely true, however. I hated those things. x_x
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That would be the Democrats and the ACLU. they would be screaming disenfranchised Voters. IMHO if your not smart enough to get a High-school education then your not smart enough to make an informed choice for office or any ballot measure. of course by mandating an education to Vote you would probably rule out half of the people that Vote Democrat.woodchip wrote:For those schools where graduation rates are 20%, I seriously propose bringing back corporal punishment.
Too bad the stupid parents who birth welfare check offspring don't know the value of education as they themselves are high school dropouts. Want to cure the problem? Require a high school diploma to vote.
If a high school degree was bandy'd about as a voting rights credential, guess who would yell loudest against it.
what do you expect? some people here have got it so ingrained into their heads that it's the other guys' fault that they've developed tunnel vision.Foil wrote:Nice. Even a thread about the difficulties facing our educational system turn into partisan party-bashing.
Really. Even when the parents aren't educated enough to understand the value of a high school diploma? Where the parents aren't even bright enough to understand the value of how charter schools work and thus vote the NEA cant and thus vote against the chance for their children to get a better education.Foil wrote: the people that are going to make the biggest difference are parents.
Read my earlier post:woodchip wrote:...what makes you think the parents of low performing school districts even want or are capable of making a difference?
In my experience, nothing made a greater difference than parenting.Foil [bold added for emphasis] wrote:...I know firsthand about some of the issues.
I spent a year as a 9th-grade teacher at Douglass High (different school, but some definite similarities) in Oklahoma City. It's an urban school, 99% minority, in probably the poorest ghetto-ish area of the city.
...In one case, I had an emotionally-troubled student who claimed to be the son of a pimp, being raised in the 'family business'. I thought it was typical teen braggadocio... until I met his dad. This kid was screwed-up; he was smart, handled my classwork fine, a talented artist (I saw his art book), but he was already messed-up.
Another case was the smartest kid in my class (yep, the one who was bored by the normal material, and was always asking for harder stuff). He was being raised by an elderly grandmother, and ended up joining a gang and virtually disappearing at the end of the year. By the time May rolled around, I hardly ever saw him.
There were a bunch of others...
The one thing that seemed to be a common denominator was parents. In the majority of cases, the kids that had a decent parent (or even just a good coach, or mentor) were the ones who had a good chance of making it out. In the rare cases where a kid had both parents, those kids generally did fine.
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