Ted, I kind of expected a relatively high dropout rate for Latinos, but it is absolutely alarming to see that 42% of black students drop out.
Probably going to add more fuel to the fire regarding budget cuts hitting education. Cause you know, the teachers and the bureaucracies will never blame themselves. Only the "lack of money."
I did a paper on the drop out rate in Chicago among Latino and black boys. If I remember correctly, the percentage was slightly worse than CA. Its mostly the culture, the poverty......the schools are falling apart....the teachers discouraged/overwhelmed. Both parents work or worse, they just don't care. I learned during my student teaching that if you don't have the parents behind you, you stand little chance. Each teacher has 150 kids most of whom have needs to be met. America's inner city schools should be getting the most money, the most attention, the most teachers. Instead, they get the least money, the least attention, the least teachers. America proudly proclaims itself the nation of immigrants but it doesn't want to foot to bill to get those immigrants onto equal footing with the rest of the population. So we lose one generation. Unfortunately, with blacks and Latinos, one generation has led to two and three. The problems are obvious; so are the solutions. But nothing changes. Its how great empires fail. |
