Reply #5: A whopping 34.6% in Baltimore, and 24.9 in Detroit! [View All]

[Laughing Mirror]

In spite of all those charter schools and special schools, magnet schools and so on and so forth, only a small percentage of the students is able to tough it out. The real reasons most of the kids don't want to stay, sometimes can't stay, in school, are not being addresed.

I dropped out too in order to get an eduction, and that was more than 35 years ago. A lot of students did. Schools were already horrible back then, a reflection on what kind of a community we were living in. Things seem to have gotten worse. The quality of life in the schools & communities has not improved apparently, and has even deteriorated further. The poor are getting poorer. No wonder we have 2.5 million people behind bars.