Comments | elviswannabe: 80% uneducated?

elviswannabe

80% uneducated?

Jun 22, 2006 20:48

As I get ready to go introduce a group of middle schoolers to the woods, I just heard some astounding figures on the NPR program "News & Notes". The graduation rate for Detroit Public Schools is the worst of the major cities in the US at 21.7%. Baltimore came in second, followed by Houston (though I can't remember what they said their percentages ( Read more... )

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xpatchouli June 23 2006, 13:09:17 UTC

So many issues are stewing under your comments ( ... )

elviswannabe June 25 2006, 22:07:44 UTC

I think the quality of our schools and educational programs from K through 12 is one of the core problems our region is failing. Meaning we have good teachers but the support system with state/federal funding/spending is all messed up making it difficult for poorer areas to make any real advances.

I couldn't agree with you more completely on this.

This weekend, I took a very informal, entirely unscientific poll, and everyone had a friend who had dropped out - many because of pregnancy. Yikes. Granted, that's the target population of my orgazination, and asking 10 kids in a social program like this, these questions isn't fair, or even remotely a way to measure of "detroit public schools in general".

But still... These kids were all 14 or younger... Yikes.