Only 25 % high school graduation rate in Detroit, worst in nation. - Page 2

UtahBill · 08-12-08, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by 1069

Then perhaps we could try providing them with options other than school and crime.
Some people are suited for neither, but that doesn't mean they're completely useless. I'm sure we as a society could figure out some use for them, if we really tried. Perhaps they'd like to be productive citizens, but can't find any avenue to reaching that goal, once high school turns out to be unfeasible.

I would certainly love to hear what those options might be.....
Without a certain amount of EDUCATION, training is made very difficult.
You can't train someone for a job by show and tell, they have to understand what is going on, or else you stand there and watch them and make sure they do it right. Might as well do it yourself....
High School should never be considered unfeasible, except for those who are retarded to the point that it is a waste of time.
High School should be mandatory. You graduate, or you get drafted into something like the old reform schools.

MC.no.spin · 08-12-08, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 1069

Then perhaps we could try providing them with options other than school and crime.
Some people are suited for neither, but that doesn't mean they're completely useless. I'm sure we as a society could figure out some use for them, if we really tried. Perhaps they'd like to be productive citizens, but can't find any avenue to reaching that goal, once high school turns out to be unfeasible.

If they really had such aspirations they would have stayed in school. Instead, they're hooked on sex, drugs and rap music. Crime and welfare give them an easy out: Little output for larger returns. That's their mindset, not something else. Can it be changed? Yes. But it will take a lot more than sympathy.

1069 · 08-12-08, 08:33 PM

High school has not been de rigeur for anybody up until this century; and certainly not for everybody.
Personally, I'm far from persuaded that it "should never be considered unfeasible for anyone", or that the only alternative should be incarceration.
Until the present day, it's never in history been considered appropriate or feasible that all- or even most- young people receive secondary education.
In previous times, kids who didn't want it found positions or apprenticeships for themselves, got married and started having babies, or ran away to war or to sea.

The world may have changed overnight, but that doesn't mean people have.

MC.no.spin · 08-12-08, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by 1069

High school has not been de rigeur for anybody up until this century; and certainly not for everybody.
Personally, I'm far from persuaded that it "should never be considered unfeasible for anyone", or that the only alternative should be incarceration.
Until the present day, it's never in history been considered appropriate or feasible that all- or even most- young people receive secondary education.
In previous times, kids who didn't want it found positions or apprenticeships for themselves, got married and started having babies, or ran away to war or to sea.

The world may have changed overnight, but that doesn't mean people have.

High School and college are basically vessels for increased wisdom. They do not, however, replace that wisdom. What they do is make it possible to get educated. The fact that they are turned away is an indication of a lack of desire to get educated. It takes some kind of know-how to get paid. Unfortunately, these drop-outs try to gain the know-how of drug dealing, lock picking and alarm devices, instead of something contributive to society. Essentially, they cheat and rob the system.

UtahBill · 08-12-08, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by MC.no.spin

High School and college are basically vessels for increased wisdom. They do not, however, replace that wisdom. What they do is make it possible to get educated. The fact that they are turned away is an indication of a lack of desire to get educated. It takes some kind of know-how to get paid. Unfortunately, these drop-outs try to gain the know-how of drug dealing, lock picking and alarm devices, instead of something contributive to society. Essentially, they cheat and rob the system.

And in the process cheat themselves out of the good life...
Eventually they get old enough to realize they took the easy way out, and that way seldom results in anything to be proud of...
Certainly I have never heard anyone bragging about being second or third generation welfare recipients....

roguenuke · 08-13-08, 01:43 AM

I do agree that most of this is due to laziness or the belief that they can make a better life for themselves without the education. I think more positive incentives to stay in school need to be put out there. And it would be nice to see a few of these celebrities that teenagers look up to stress how important education is.

However, one of my brothers was not allowed to finish his senior year in Mich. because he was 19 when he tried to enroll. He had only been held back one year in elementary school. The school based its policy on the belief that students over 18 are "disruptive". A few of the students may have had the same problem as my brother. Failing one grade in school should not have this big of an affect on a person's future.

MC.no.spin · 08-13-08, 01:53 AM

Just found this by Bill Cosby:

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'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.

I can't even talk the way these people talk:

Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.

$500 sneakers for what?

And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

Where were you when he was 2?

Where were you when he was 12?

Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

And where is the father? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

What part of Africa did this come from??

We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...

I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany, Scotland, England, Ireland, or the Netherlands. The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa. So stop, already!!!

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .. and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

We have got to take the neighborhood back.

People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands'-- or men or whatever you call them now.

We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

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UtahBill · 08-13-08, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by roguenuke

I do agree that most of this is due to laziness or the belief that they can make a better life for themselves without the education. I think more positive incentives to stay in school need to be put out there. And it would be nice to see a few of these celebrities that teenagers look up to stress how important education is.

However, one of my brothers was not allowed to finish his senior year in Mich. because he was 19 when he tried to enroll. He had only been held back one year in elementary school. The school based its policy on the belief that students over 18 are "disruptive". A few of the students may have had the same problem as my brother. Failing one grade in school should not have this big of an affect on a person's future.

I agree with you, but would also offer them the GED test on the spot. If they pass, they graduate immediately.
It could be that the age of adulthood makes the school district wary of them dating the younger girls.
I would also like to see an additional 2 years added to public education, like a choice of 2 years of community college or trade schools.
We shouldn't abandon them to facing life alone at age 18 unless there is a place for them, and often times there is not...

1069 · 08-13-08, 11:04 PM

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With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ..

Quoth the father of Erika Ranee, Erinn Chalene, Ensa Camille, and Evin Harrah, and Ennis William. I guess all that edumacation didn't help him learn to spell.

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...and all of them are in jail.

.... as opposed to your son, shot to death.
Medice, cura te ipsum.