Racial Graduation Gap in Maryland Widens

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I think Al Sharpton should look in to these "allegations". These types of numbers do nothing but serve the "man". All students should get equal grades because we're all created equal. Why does somebody who works and studies hard have to get better grades than the somebody who's a player. That is unfair and downright racist. The peeps ain't graduating cause they have thug life don't you know. It be super hard to keep the payments on Escalade, show up at school, be a big baller, and scam honeys. The school of hard knocks is what counts, not some Math that nobody be understanding or caring about anyway. And why do I gotta be like speaking English proper and stuff huh? I roll how I roll cuz it's real, you haters just jealous.

baltimoron of MD 1:34PM March 18, 2009

This article seems to strategically leave out the white to overall percentage gap, because I guarantee that is a larger gap as well. My school, Towson University, feels like it is at least 1/4 foreign students and its growing every day. Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels that way. I would also assume it wasn't this way three years ago, or at least not as many foreign students. What I'm getting at here is that foreign students (which most are not black or white) always get better grades; they came all the way over here, so they have to or they are letting a lot of people down. So that is why I would think that gap has increased of black to overall graduation ratio: because there are more foreign students getting better grades than the rest of us which makes that gap increase.
Also, whoever designs this website: why do you have Yahoo! Buzz on the tools menu at the bottom of the post instead of Digg? No one uses Yahoo! Buzz.

Sean of MD 10:04AM March 13, 2009