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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135762)	8/14/2013 12:36:22 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 149317

I would think that any measure of success would have at least have about 80 percent of the kids graduating. I would think Garfield's graduation rate now would be higher (because there was great hue and cry when it dropped out of the sixties to 58 percent and got people's attention there) because they, educators and school administrators, didn't think that was a success story back in 2006. I'd tried a precursory search to find out what it is today and couldn't bring it up. Why would you expect the graduation rate to be as high or higher for Garfield that a mostly white school? Anyway people in different parts of the country are trying to do what you advocate--bring better schools to the inner city or bring inner city kids to better schools, but we need data on who is graduating from said schools before we can say whether this is answer for welfare kids, and or kids from poorer neighborhoods. What would be your alternative to improving the schools? Getting the parents off welfare and making the kids start working at the age of 9 or 11 or 13?

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