Comments on: Big Cities Battle Dismal Graduation Rates

Report: Less Than 50 Percent Of High School Students Graduate In 17 Of U.S.'s Largest Cities

[perceptions5]

Yeah and the Democrats and their pals in our liberal MSM wolfpack press don''t understand why America doesn''t want them to move their "city" liberalism out to the suburbs and country side.

Yes! This "social injustice" that''s being committed in America''s "deep blue" cities is 100% political.

Because you have a situation where the Democrats that have run these deep blue cities for DECADES AND GENERATIONS have had 100% control over all "budgets and city programs".

Shame on you liberal Democrats...........Where is the Social Justice?

What excuses can there possibly be for this crime against innocent children within the deep blue city walls of our poverty and crime ridden cities?

............oh the humanity.

[arlt1627]

Americans have been told for decades and generations from our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack press and their close pals the Democrats that "they" only cared about poor people. And certainly Republicans didn''''t care about poor people.

So how in a deep blue city like Baltimore where the Democrats have had 100% over all budgets and programs that so many people live in poverty and virtually no one is graduating from even High School.

YES, this IS a political "thing".

Posted by perceptions5 at 05:23 AM : Apr 02, 2008

This is how it works. The federal government gives some money for the operations, etc. of public schools. Most of the rest is generated by state and local communities and that is what the individual districts rely on. If you don''t get funding or the economy of that city is depressed, conditions in the schools are much worse. The "friend" connection to the Democrats is connected to their dedication on getting increased funding at the Federal and State Levels. However, as we all know, even if the NAACP or Democrats or Republicans are centered in an area, that does not solely correlate to great scores.....I mean you''d think Washington D.C. would be the safest city on the planet and have some of the greatest test scores too? But that isn''t reality. Reality is MANY conditions and economic factors play a role in this and politics tries to help some of these conditions.

[formrusmcsgt]

Looks like Mcdonald''s won''t need to raise wages any time soon ....

[rmsdm4]

The inner city, a bastion of liberlism. Liberalism folley, these kids should be all sitting around a campfire waiting for robin hood to give them something to eat.

[guest173]

if the working age was set to after high school was done, the graduation rate would be better I''m sure. In the summer before my senior year, I got in my opinion a really good paying job. When school started up again, I asked my bosses about school and my hours, since it was all mornings, and they said I could do what I want but if I went to school, I didn''t have the job anymore because of the hours. I just stayed at the job instead and finished school a couple years later.

I also think schools need to connect schools with how real life works and about real jobs and WHY school and education is important and I also believe high schools need to help students a lot more in filling out college applications and the reality of college, I was set back years to get into college because getting in and learning how to pay for it were a lot harder than I thought, and I had no parents helping me. High schools are really lacking when it comes to getting into college for those who need help and may be the first generation.

[perceptions5]

In some schools the inmates are running the prison. Teachers and staff are fearful of being assaulted in the classrooms by juvenile thugs who have gotten away with it for too long. Without discipline there can be no atmosphere conducive to learning. Lesson for the day: Johnny can beat up the assistant principal with impunity.


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Posted by SistaTee at 05:

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............Like my grandfather always told me. "Until a child has learned discipline he has learned nothing".

[sistatee-2009]

In some schools the inmates are running the prison. Teachers and staff are fearful of being assaulted in the classrooms by juvenile thugs who have gotten away with it for too long. Without discipline there can be no atmosphere conducive to learning. Lesson for the day: Johnny can beat up the assistant principal with impunity.

[perceptions5]

That''s America''s "deep blue" cities that is.

Why is it that the "bluer" the area the more poverty and despair?

How can it be in a "deep blue" city like Baltimore that 72% of the Black American male children NEVER graduate from High School?

Baltimore is headquarters for the NAACP.

So how could a deep blue city like Baltimore that has been a "one-party" deep blue city for DECADES AND GENERATIONS be so bad?

Americans have been told for decades and generations from our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack press and their close pals the Democrats that "they" only cared about poor people. And certainly Republicans didn''t care about poor people.

So how in a deep blue city like Baltimore where the Democrats have had 100% over all budgets and programs that so many people live in poverty and virtually no one is graduating from even High School.

YES, this IS a political "thing".

And there appears to be a huge "disconnect" between Perception and Reality.

..............oh the humanity........!

[nonayabiness]

Truly shocking. Wow. People with college degrees are having a hard time finding work now. Just further evidence of the state of our economy and nation right now. Maybe many of these kids quit school because they have to work to help support their families. It''s a terrible shame when so many kids can''t get through high school, whatever the reasons are. Very sad.

[sweetreeeed]

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