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Political Notebook: Should kids be forced into chasing 4-yeardegrees?

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From: The Columbian
Date: 20031123
Author:GREGG HERRINGTON, Columbian

GREGG HERRINGTON, Columbian
The Columbian
11-23-2003
'He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts -- for support rather than illumination."
-- Andrew Lang, Scottish author, 1844-1912
There it was, a figurative lamp post, on page 6 of the annual "Report to the Community" mailed to homes in the Vancouver School District last month:
Dropout rate: 2.1 percent.
Political spin isn't limited to political candidates and the councils, commissions and legislatures that govern us.
School districts, too, find life is more pleasant and critics less onerous when there's less ...

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