Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Need Proof Of Schools' Failures?

The story is similar throughout the country but take New York state for example. New York state citizens spend the most per pupil in the country @ $17,173 per pupil annually. That's almost as much money as I make in a year in retirement and that's the amount for just ONE student! Do you see ANYTHING wrong with this picture? HELLO!?!?

Teacher pay and benefits for New York's teachers rank among the top in the country and teachers are able to retire in their 50's. The results of this "investment": nearly 40% of New York's students won't graduate than 23% of those who do will leave high school prepared to enter college.

If we grade New York's education (the story is similar in the rest of the country!), that's a 60% success rate, right? 60% of their kids will graduate. Let's explain that on a basis that even those in the education system ought to relate to. On a standard grading curve, what does a grade of 60% get New York's education system? Oh, yeah. AN "F" ... for FAILING! By the way, the national average isn't a whole lot better at 70% which was a "D-" when I went to school ... still FAILING relative to what we need them to do, what they're hired to do and what the kids need them to do.

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