Keeping Count of Students Who Drop Out

Decision

Has this gone to court yet? Have any decisions been made, and if so, what were they? If not, when will this be heard in court?

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It's Time to Stop Blaming Educators for Society's Failures

My home county has a knack for making national news…In this case, I must sympathize with the school district and its employees, and am fearful concerning the precedent that the ACLU has set for LEA’s nationwide.

If the current trend continues, secondary schools will become institutions whose chief political responsibility is to function as diploma factories, wherein teachers and administrators alike are under the gun to compensate for the deficiencies their students bring to class with them. These are caused, in some cases, by poor upbringing. Too often, instructional failures at the middle and elementary levels are to blame. But, just as frequently, intellectual abilities do come into play. Regarding the latter, genetic and environmental preconditions (including non-fatal vaccine-induced neurological damage, along with fetal alcohol syndrome and other prenatal contributors) must be factored in.

I’m no racist; if persons of African American and Hispanic heritage are experiencing lower graduation rates that white students in Palm Beach County, socioeconomic contributors are likely to blame. In rural America, white students experience similar difficulties which lead to poor academic performance. Address those issues – don’t impugn the teachers.

The current ACLU lawsuit and dpi boilerplate create scapegoats of the very people who have devoted their lives to educating the masses; if we all succumb to this way of thinking (willingly or otherwise), we may award more diplomas, but, ultimately, will this social currency signify anything more than cultural acceptance? What damage will be done to our educational system while inept bureaucrats meander, likely over the next few decades, toward recognizing their error?

To quote from the ACLU complaint, the Palm Beach County School District has allegedly failed to provide a "uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high-quality education" as guaranteed by the state's constitution. The Defendant, as a result, will likely be ordered to improve its graduation rate by a specific percentage annually, a “damage” requested by the plaintiff and his attorneys to reduce gaps in graduation rates between white students and students of color.

Interestingly enough, Thomas Schroeder (the plaintiff in the “racial justice” suit) appears in his US News photo to be as Caucasian as it gets.

Since when did a high school diploma become a Constitutionally-guaranteed advantage? Moreover, if LEA’s face political pressure to churn out graduates at state-prescribed rates, academic standards will inevitably suffer

My home county has a knack for making national news…In this case, I must sympathize with the school district and its employees, and am fearful concerning the precedent that the ACLU has set for LEA’s nationwide.

If the current trend continues, secondary schools will become institutions whose chief political responsibility is to function as diploma factories, wherein teachers and administrators alike are under the gun to compensate for the deficiencies their students bring to class with them. These are caused, in some cases, by poor upbringing. Too often, instructional failures at the middle and elementary levels are to blame. But, just as frequently, intellectual abilities do come into play. Regarding the latter, genetic and environmental preconditions (including non-fatal vaccine-induced neurological damage, along with fetal alcohol syndrome and other prenatal contributors) must be factored in.

I’m no racist; if persons of African American and Hispanic heritage are experiencing lower graduation rates that white students in Palm Beach County, socioeconomic contributors are likely to blame. In rural America, white students experience similar difficulties which lead to poor academic performance. Address those issues – don’t impugn the teachers.

The current ACLU lawsuit and dpi boilerplate create scapegoats of the very people who have devoted their lives to educating the masses; if we all succumb to this way of thinking (willingly or otherwise), we may award more diplomas, but, ultimately, will this social currency signify anything more than cultural acceptance? What damage will be done to our educational system while inept bureaucrats meander, likely over the next few decades, toward recognizing their error?

To quote from the ACLU complaint, the Palm Beach County School District has allegedly failed to provide a "uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high-quality education" as guaranteed by the state's constitution. The Defendant, as a result, will likely be ordered to improve its graduation rate by a specific percentage annually, a “damage” requested by the plaintiff and his attorneys to reduce gaps in graduation rates between white students and students of color.

Interestingly enough, Thomas Schroeder (the plaintiff in the “racial justice” suit) appears in his US News photo to be as Caucasian as it gets.

Since when did a high school diploma become a Constitutionally-guaranteed advantage? Moreover, if LEA’s face political pressure to churn out graduates at state-prescribed rates, academic standards will inevitably suffer

Keep Count of students Who Drop Out

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Parents jailed for education neglect Atlanta

Our society procecutes parents for corporal punishment, or spanking, and jails parents when they can no longer force their children to go to school. Meanwhile, youth are involved in more and more violent crimes.

For a truly interesting perspective on kids, parents, and truancy, see link:

http://www.examiner.com/x-852-Atlanta-Civics-Examiner

Leave it to the good old government to lead us down the path of what they want us to know. We couldn't trust the numbers anyway. We are in a sad state of affairs with the school system. It's sad when a student can make passing grades in all of his classes but has to take a "standardized" test to get his diploma. We were told our student could even take the test "5" (yes I said five) times in order to pass. I ask the teachers if they would want to take it 5 times. We have since withdrawn our high school student and enrolled him in a private school. If you are a square peg don't think you are going to get very far in the "round holed" government school system. We were to the point to withdraw or go to court. We tried everything!!

Numbers? Heck yeah, we got numbers.

It's amazing that every high school in America knows its sports players' eligibility, its ballgame win/loss records in every sport for the last 50 years and even individual player stats. But most don't know how many came into the classroom doors and left without finishing a diploma. Worse yet, the citizens will worship the darn local sports standings, even minor intramural stuff, and they don't give a hoot whether anybody at school knows the grad rate or not. Really? Of course they don't. If citizens at large cared in the least, you wouldn't have this mish-mash of no reliable numbers.

By the way, what do we even have local school boards for? Oversight of the sports programs? To get the astroturf funded for the field?