One in four U.S. students dropping out

Since the early OOs, most school systems, such as LAUSD, have revamped their high schools to offer only academics. Thus you have the spectacle of students sitting in algebra one classes who cannot do basic arithmetic. There used to be basic math classes for these students but no longer. These students are cycled through the ninth grade for two or three years and then sent to adult or continuation school. By making the adult or continuation school a part of the high school division, the LAUSD avoids counting the students as dropouts. To ignore the reality of the distribution of human intelligence is to live deliberately in unreality. This is what LAUSD and other school systems do when they offer a college-prep only curriculum, which was historically designed for a small fraction of the student population.

This article plus the one that states Latino population is growing in the US equals what we have today. Let's face it. Many Latinos in general do not make education a priority. The rest is statistics and probability.

One out of four dropping out??? Hmmm. Any coincidence that 25% of the US population is hispanic???

When is everyone going to realize that Mexicans have destroyed this country????

The government has zero interest in having an educated populace. Why would they? To have a more critical populace? I worked in the education system for four years as a teacher. What a gaff and what a tragedy. So many kids with dreams and aspirations to do things only to be met by true incompetence and rife disinterest.

The solution is putting a couple crying union teachers on television and radio ads begging for more tax money.

We've thrown enough money at education and it hasn't done a thing to improve it.

Seriously, get unions out of government. They've been a big part of the problem. Kids and taxpayers deserve better.

My daughter misbehaved in 8th grade science class one day, and her teacher said: "If you don't stop talking in class, I'm going to send you into the ESL class with all the Mexicans"!!!

Needless to say, she stopped talking immediately! I wonder how many other teachers threaten the kids with ESL classes when they misbehave??? Evidentally, it's a punishment worse than hell to the Caucasian kids!!!

Always right wrote:

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Why do you ignore the black problem?Someone has to flip hamburgers,if you ever get rid of illegals the 25% can take their place.

Right on!!

Tony wrote:

The government has zero interest in having an educated populace. Why would they? To have a more critical populace? I worked in the education system for four years as a teacher. What a gaff and what a tragedy. So many kids with dreams and aspirations to do things only to be met by true incompetence and rife disinterest.

Interesting point, Tony, I've argued that myself. An educated populace is much harder to control, isn't it? It's why the Hispanic leadership tries so hard to oppose bilingual education and similar measures. If the Latin population only gets their information in Spanish, from the bilingual power brokers...like me...then I don't have to fear them as much. If, heaven forbid, these immigrants learn English proficiency, well, they may end up reading other publications and speaking to other people, and receiving information from a variety of sources, not just what I spoon-feed them. Knowledge is power, and one thing the government, on all sides, hates is citizens with power. The same thing with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. They don't want empowerment for all, just for themselves. Excellent point.