Dropout Nation

[coberst]

Dropout Nation

 

A wealthy nation just like a wealthy family can maintain a high standard of living even while making a plethora of serious errors in judgment. Someday, however, these serious errors and just the normal course of events will turn the wealth of both into hard times. The degree of error, coupled with the degree of wealth, will determine just how long the fun-and-foolishness can last.

 

In the recent copy of “Time” the special report is “Dropout Nation”, where “30% of America’s high school students will leave without graduating.” This is a story about the sorry state of education in America and that these facts have remained hidden from the public by our leaders; responding, no doubt, to the desire of the population to remain narcotized in la-la-land.

 

Every nation, I guess, gets the type of leadership it deserves; the only question is how long America can withstand the foolishness of its citizens.

 

A rich nation just like a rich family can make many mistakes that never affect their standard of living until someday the mistakes finally take a toll so great as to swamp their wealth and the standard of living goes.

 

Our understanding is the ‘high-place’ from which we view a domain of reality. Most of our understandings are a result of social osmosis (effortless often unconscious assimilation) in our young years. Occasionally we add to or modify these inherited understandings by concentrated intellectual activity in our adult years.

 

I think we need to lay off the self-induced narcotics and make a concentrated effort to modify or add to our inherited understandings before our national wealth can no longer protect us.

 

I am speaking about the United States here but I suspect this applies equally in most other nations. What do you think?

[DarkColoredLight]

I can only assume that there has to be some connection between dropouts and parenting, or lack there of. Although, it would be hard to make some sort of survay for this connection, I think it would, for the most part, be the effect from parents not paying attention to how well, if at all, their kids are doing in school.

 

In my schooling days, my parents were definatly a good boost for me to get my work done. Without them caring about how I did, dropping out would of sounded nice to me too.

[pgrmdave]

Well, I have heard that the United States is the only nation which tries to educate 100% of its population through age 18. If other nations have 30% of people not be educated to 18, then we're on par with them.

[UncleAl]

“30% of America’s high school students will leave without graduating.”

It is closer to 35%. The percentage has not much changed since before the Civil War. It will change in about five years - it will zoom upward. American zero-goal education creates a maleable and dependent electorate by intellectual starvation, political indoctrination, and psychopharmaceutical intervention. Raw material input is profoundly shifting from White and Yellow to Brown and Black. Disaster will follow, just as in their native lands.

 

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/immig.htm

 

Official Truth has flat out given all exam answers to the failing cohort (”special summer tutoring classes”). More than 4000 of them still can’t pass the thing given unlimited tries. They are objectively empirically reproducibly stupid. Should they be given social advocate counselors to take the test for them? After all, unlawful racial discrimination is visually obvious.

 

Europe has trade schools. Those who are identiifed early on as not being able to make a living with their minds are taught to do so with their hands. Precious little remains of First World civilization wherein able muscle is all that is necessary.

 

Look what sits in the Oval Office. That is the future of America.