When Florida makes the news it is typically not good.
Hurricane’s, voting processes, and the occasional poodle-attacked-by-gator all seem to top the list.
So what is on the list this week at The Slow Bleed?
According to state figures, 72.4 percent of students who enrolled in ninth grade managed to graduate last spring. That means about 37,000 students dropped off the radar and out of school.
The only thing worse is that in a state-by-state study, Florida is not the worse. Here are states that fall below Florida when it comes to graduation…
- Tennessee
- Alabama
- Mississippi
- Georgia
- New York
- South Carolina
And the (worst) winner is…
- Nevada.
If your state did not make the list, just give it a few more years. With absolutely no priorities for education in this country these statistics are not going to get any better.
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Doesn’t really bother me. Lets face it, some kids don’t need education beyond reading and writing in order to make their living in manual labor or flipping burgers. There is nothing wrong with that.
When we lower the bar to keep these kids in school we hurt the ones on the top end who aren’t getting the advanced programs they should. Instead the little money the district has goes to efforts to keep kids in school who don’t want to be there.
The problem is that a trend in minorities taking up these flipping burger positions isn’t leaving these kids much for work. It used to be when you went to McDonalds, you were talking to a pimply faced kid, now you cannot even speak to the person unless if you know a foreign language.