Obama is an idiot...

Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

If you think there's an immediate or pressing need for expanded foriegn language studies in failing urban high schools then it's you who's the idiot.

Why not, as options?

And it should be no surprise that Spanish speaking immigrant kids in Tucson or even Chicago drop out. For 5th generation African-Americans who speak English to not graduate from high school is a disgrace.

How about white kids who don't graduate? Also a disgrace?

How's no-child-left-behind coming along preventing kids from being left behind?
 
Quote from bigdavediode:

Why not, as options?



How about white kids who don't graduate? Also a disgrace?

How's no-child-left-behind coming along preventing kids from being left behind?

In most school systems foreign language IS an option. CPS students can take Arabic, Chinese ect. With all of the problems confronting urban schools for Obama to advocate the idea of increased participation, i.e. funding for these programs is disingenuous lipstick on the pig of failing schools. Does Obama favor choice in schools? No. Do his children attend Chicago Public schools? No. Why not? They were good enough for Michelle.

Not enough white kids fail to graduate for anyone to claim there's a systematic problem with white drop out rates. And YES drop out rates have plummeted since NCLB....

http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/pdf/1_PDF.pdf
 
Quote from james_bond_3rd:

A bunch of bigots who have never spoken a foreign language...

There is an old Chinese saying that describes you guys. "Frogs in a well." Look it up.


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Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

55% of black male students drop out of Chicago schools. The very schools in Obama's home town. These kids can't even learn English let alone another language. Although I'm sure under the Obama/Democrap education plan Ebonics will recieve official language status.....
*Sigh*

...receive...

The irony, eh? :D
 
Quote from Thunderdog:

*Sigh*

...receive...

The irony, eh? :D

Hey you try trading a couple of hundred Treasuries and index futs a side and still be able to post like mad. I'm like quadruple tasking all morning. The harder the trade the faster i type....
 
Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

In most school systems foreign language IS an option. CPS students can take Arabic, Chinese ect. With all of the problems confronting urban schools for Obama to advocate the idea of increased participation, i.e. funding for these programs is disingenuous lipstick on the pig of failing schools. Does Obama favor choice in schools? No. Do his children attend Chicago Public schools? No. Why not? They were good enough for Michelle.

And she's brilliant, as you can see by her record.

I think it's great that you want every kid to go to a private school -- I just don't want to pay for your choice.

Not enough white kids fail to graduate for anyone to claim there's a systematic problem with white drop out rates. And YES drop out rates have plummeted since NCLB....

No, they haven't "plummeted."

But anyway, you feel that 6% of whites who haven't completed high school is not a systemic problem, while the 11% of blacks (your numbers from your citation) who haven't completed high school is a systematic problem.

Why do you feel that the 6% isn't systemic while 11% is?
 
Quote from bigdavediode:

And she's brilliant, as you can see by her record.

I think it's great that you want every kid to go to a private school -- I just don't want to pay for your choice.

Whatever. You're happy that you're spending 2-3x more for failing public schools. You and the Democraps have ZERO interest in the future of children but total commitment to NEA members whose swollen salaries are paid from the broken backs of middle class tax payers.

No, they haven't "plummeted."

But anyway, you feel that 6% of whites who haven't completed high school is not a systemic problem, while the 11% of blacks (your numbers from your citation) who haven't completed high school is a systematic problem.

Why do you feel that the 6% isn't systemic while 11% is?

You might want to re read the article. Why is the black DOR "only" 11%?

Also my article seemingly understates drop out rates in toto.

"Each of the nation's ten largest public high school districts, which enroll more than 8 percent of the nation's public school student population, failed to graduate more than 60 percent of its students.
Among the nation's 100 largest public school districts (by total enrollment size), the highest graduation rate was in Davis, Utah (89 percent), followed by the Ysleta Independent School District in Texas (84 percent). Among the 100 largest districts, the lowest graduation rate was in San Bernardino City Unified district (42 percent), followed by Detroit (42 percent) and New York City (43 percent). "

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_48.htm
 
IMAO: A Scientific look At Liberals

"Here’s yet another tiresome “scientific” study on what’s wrong with conservatives. Why do we keep getting these kind of things? Because social scientists tend to be liberals. Why is that? Has anyone ever thought to do a study of why, even though liberals are a fringe group in America at large, they tend to make up the majority of certain occupations? I guess I’m the only one who’s thought of it, but I can’t write up a long scientific study because I HAVE AN ACTUAL JOB.

And there’s the difference.

Look at the occupations that tend to be dominated by liberals: Social scientists, college professors, actors, musicians, artists. What’s similar between them all? They don’t produce anything essential. If you ran the country like a company and because of budget cutbacks you had to start laying people off, all the jobs liberals do would be the first to go. It’s nice to have actors and musicians, but we can live without them.

Liberals are an excess of civilization. You have to reach a certain level of society where useless people no longer starve to death before liberals can exist. But liberals can’t exist on their own. They need conservatives to do all the useful things needed for actual survival. Liberals need conservatives, but not the other way around.

Also, liberals have dumb monkey faces that I just want to punch.

Someone submit this to a scientific journal for me, please."

:) :) :)
 
Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

You might want to re read the article. Why is the black DOR "only" 11%?

That's the percentages in your article who didn't receive a diploma.

I didn't receive my high school diploma in three years, but I'm not a dropout.

Also my article seemingly understates drop out rates in toto.

:) Now you have to bash your own citation! Ooops! :)

"Each of the nation's ten largest public high school districts, which enroll more than 8 percent of the nation's public school student population, failed to graduate more than 60 percent of its students.
Among the nation's 100 largest public school districts (by total enrollment size), the highest graduation rate was in Davis, Utah (89 percent), followed by the Ysleta Independent School District in Texas (84 percent). Among the 100 largest districts, the lowest graduation rate was in San Bernardino City Unified district (42 percent), followed by Detroit (42 percent) and New York City (43 percent). "

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_48.htm

Yes, poor areas have lower graduation rates.
 
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