American's public school?

Question

According to USATODAY: “Students in a handful of big-city school districts have a less than 50-50 chance of graduating from high school with their peers, and a few cities graduate far fewer than half each spring.

what are your opinions? what causes this low graduation rate ? who is responsible? what can the public schools do? is there any solution to this problem

Answer 1

Unstable home lives.
Teachers cannot overcome that.

Answer 2

It really depends on where you are going to school. Some states have better education programs than others, this is usually because the way people live in those states. You will find that the better public schools are in large to medium size suburbs. Just because you go to a private school or you are home schooled doesn't mean you are getting a better education. I have attended public schools my entire life. I am an IB diploma candidate and have done good on my tests. I see no problems with education at my school and I am happy there. You shouldn't believe everything you hear.

Answer 3

Its disgraceful, that's what it is. I feel outraged when I see this and all of the tax dollars my parents pay to keep some of my lazy peers in school. Obviously what causes it is the low grades and really its just the students that don't seem to care. They rather pay attention to stuff like Tila Tequila instead of keeping their GPA up. I suppose the people to blame are the students, the parents, and the schools. If the parents don't care then why should the students? And the schools seem to not care either since they don't encourage students enough to stay in school. The government should have interveined, but again, they seem not care either. The best they could do is put the No Child Left Behind Act, but we all know its not working. I can't give you a solution, but if we keep this up, Communist China will be next world superpower and good bye freedom and democracy.Its sad really, but I can assure I'm doing my part in not ruining this great country. I'm 14, and I'm Hispanic. I can assure you I either surpass or can compete with any of my non-minority classmates in academics. Not all hope is lost , but let's hope we can soon fix this before its too late.

Answer 4

A few years ago I attended a graduation at one such high school. These were kids who had gone through tremendous hardship - the young woman I was there to see had seen her mother die of alcoholism, her father and brothers become drug addicts, and she herself had had two children and an abusive boyfriend, yet she persisted and graduated. These were kids whose parents had not encouraged them through school - most of the girls didn't realize that the gown was not a dress and wore nothing underneath it! Yet they were there, and they deserved all the praise in the world for having succeeded.

What shocked me was how little anyone seemed to care. There were only about 50 graduates, yet the principal couldn't seem to pronounce any of their names. His talk to them was along the lines of, "Well, I guess you made it through. Let's see if you manage to do anything with the rest of your lives." There were no teachers beaming with pride, no wild applause when anyone went up for a diploma. A couple of college scholarships were announced (but again, the principal clearly had never spoken the names of these students before). As a career academic who has attended well over 50 graduations in my life, I was shocked by the lack of enthusiasm shown by everyone present.

I would say that the biggest problem is lack of caring and involvement. How do we get students to feel connected to school if they correctly discern that no one cares?

Answer 5

Government-run schools intentionally lower the learning standards for children to reduce the risk of a dangerous intellectual. They don't want the public to know too much, becausee that creates a dependence on the media and "keeps the economy going."

Watch the movie, "Network." This man has a great sense of why humans in america have found it so fit to be lazy and why the intelligence standards are so low. No child left behind, my ***. Their education plan is No Child Let Ahead. We can only be as strong as our weakest link, and that's all the government wants us to be.

Answer 6

The entire american education system needs to be rethought and redone. Its so bad, we need to stop pointing fingers and do something about it. In many other countries, student can be permniantly expelled from school, why not here? The slacker students need to be dealt with so that good students can learn and excel with out being held back by studpidity. I know that every one deserves a chance, but theres a limit. Another thing is that the education itselfl (curriculums) needs to be more vigarous and challengeing at each level. Esp. earlier, teach students how to read the proper way, not by rote and memory (abeka has an excellent reading curriculum). Learning to read correctly gives students a good solid foundation.

Answer 7

Because the indulge in other activities more in comparison to simple study while for students of smaller town it is other way round.

Answer 8

i think the students a big part of the problem and the family of them the schools are doing a lot to help them but if don't are interested we should make more opportunities to conbine school and work because money is a part of that to

Answer 9

The problem is money. Some schools get a lot more than others. They schools are all very different because they depend on the taxes from the local area and community support. Low economic community produces less successful students produces a lower economic community and repeat.

Solution: Make it fair by having education funded federally. Of course, that will never happen because local corrupt politicians won't benefit from it.

Answer 10

its the kids....drugs.....friends......not doing h/w u just gotta keep on their ***!

Answer 11

idk but i left public school for private.