abcnews.go.com — A recent study by the Department of Education found that 31 percent of American students were dropping out or failing to graduate in the nation's largest 100 public school districts. In some cities, half of all students are dropping out.
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dsheliNov 21, 2006
Great! More jobs for us!
raisinbranNov 21, 2006
@antonio97b"I'm all for people dropping out of high school. After all, I don't want to pump my own gas or have a shortage of bag boys. ;)"Off topic, but where do you (and everyone else) live that you don't have to pump your own gas? Around here, I don't think there's a full service station for 200 miles. The only state I know of that has full service stations is NJ, but I don't live there.Also, whenever I go to the grocery store I have to bag my own groceries because they've changed most of the check-out lanes to the computerized Self-Checkout ones.:(
spacejackNov 21, 2006
Good god, I've never seen quite such a distilled attack on education for its own sake.Is base utilitarianism actually a required feature of people now?
spacejackNov 21, 2006
I understand your point. You're talking about attention span. And yeah, I'll pony up, it's harder to concentrate on one thing these days because of the increased habit of multi-tasking. And people think that they can get the same level of work done while multi-tasking but they are generally fooling themselves. You can do a model car while chewing gum, watching TV and sifting through chaff on a comment board--but you can't cut a top diamond unless you concentrate on it for real.
Closed AccountNov 21, 2006
you're right, np, digged.
2012Nov 21, 2006
@ oxigenWith that attitude you will HATE your job from day one. I pity the poor fools who get you for a teacher. Teachers make a difference - good - bad - or ugly. What kind of impact do you really want to make? You are on your way to butt ugly from the start.
geekeeNov 21, 2006
"No child left behind. What a joke. Another failed policy from a failed administration."I figure no child left behind has to be pretty good, because it really pisses off the teachers' unions. No doubt in practice it's been totally corrupted already, however, since it's a govt. program.
Closed AccountNov 21, 2006
@mudcrunchblaming everybody but the student? if the student doesn't believe they're worth even applying the effort, they won't psychologically be able to succeed. it's taken years of therapy for me to combat the emotional abuse and neglect, and overcome my fear of succeeding. we all deserve it.mothers and fathers, love your children -- even if your parents didn't express their love to you.
sammysnakeNov 22, 2006
My own thoughts on the subject from someone who has never been diagnosed ADD but certainly know I can't pay attention to something longer than a few seconds. Well maybe it's not ADD but very short attention threshold for anything not of interest... even if it's important and I know it will benefit me in the future.I have never learned anything in class and the only reason I made it through high-school was the fact I could learn enough from the books so I could pass. The only reason I cared enough to progress was the fear of disappointing my parents and also trying to keep with the norm.. and the norm here in Canada is not to drop out.After graduating from high school next is secondary education which I am some how managing to get through... Overall though I have to say formal education is not for me and I am lucky I have enough in me to keep up with this bulls**t system thats in place right now.The funny thing is all through school I have procrastinated non-stop doing computer programming related things. I now have a successful $60k /yr website created own my own with the knowledge I learned from procrastination. When I procrastinate I do useful things with my time.. things that I actually enjoy.