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Drop Out factory

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mtpspur
, 10-30-2007 at 11:07 PM (1161 Views)
I read the Dayton Daily each day picking and choosing which articles to read. Takes about 20 minutes, 30 if there is some such of sports scnadal to gloat over. TV news is rarely watched because of the way they hype the lead story: Could there be a financial windfall in your future?? Tune in to TV News Channel 7 and find out. Invariably it's a story about predatory lending or some John Doe getting a settlement check from a early retirement.

But --

House MD was a new one and I was off tonight on my normal two in a row off before starting a seven day run and there was a blurb regarding Hugh Lauire--stay tuned for news at 10 on Fox.

Never did watch the article. If it was important Yahoo will have it.

Nope.

But--

Robert Goulet passed away at 73. Anyone besides me remember him in a short lived TV series Blue Light that I still think was a great show? Came on right after Batman so the channel changing must have been horrendous back then.

That's ok I still want to know the secret to Coronet Blue -- another short-lived classic.

He's wandering again but the Countess no longer beats him up over it. Sher keeps telling Logos to ban him but every forum needs a rambling man to made the serious posters look cool.

The point is almost in sight.

The lead article on the news was a list of 1500 schooos nationwide that had been studied for the high rate of drop outs that never graduated senior high.
Five of them were in the local Dayton Ohio area and to the drama queen's delight and the cynical Pharisee's all-knowing nod of resignation good ol' Fairborn High School was amongst them.

Vindication at last. My two sons did not finish high school and were drop outs. Dan will have his Associates Degree next May and had a very successful Army career and doing solid work at the Suvival School as an instructor. While I gave them no sympathy for their school problems I felt that Fairborn was indulging in the what's called the 'flush' system. If they are a problem, expell them to the point of no return. Saw little to no interest in redircting their energies in finishing high school and considering their future.

Not saying all teachers were bad. They have it tough competing for the mind of the child and their hearts. What I found unforgivable was how easy they gave the boys up. Not every kid will make it but the study showed an alarming drop-out rate. Incredible considering the annual whine for school levy money--not to mention an embezzlement scandal that's still getting sorted out.

Yep, you guessed it--no interest in being part of the solution. Since the school refuses to admit there is a problem and it's not just a tempermental brat either. Can't help fix if you deny ot's broken.

I did get along with the Vice Principal. Never liked the principal his head was either in the clouds or in the sand--I never found him at gorund level.

Still this NEVER excused the boys not living up to their responsibilities. Least they know it now.
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  1. applepie's Avatar
    My high school was kind of like that. All the problem kids were shipped off to the vocational school, and if they couldn't handle them they were dropped. The gifted kids fell through the cracks there as well. I slept two years away because the courses were not challenging enough. I hear they're doing better. At least they're meant to be better where I took classes. Glad to hear that Dan went on to college. That doesn't seem to be the norm.
  2. Virgil's Avatar
    There is no question our school system can do way better. Glad your son Dan found an outlet. It takes some people different times of their lives to root themselves. Perhaps part of the problem is that certain kids need different outlets and are not book learning oriented. There used to be more outlets for those people, but in today's information age there are obviously less.
  3. motherhubbard's Avatar
    It always shocks me to hear of a school like that. My kids go to this little tiny school and everyone is so involved with everyone else. I hate to think of just giving up on a kid- and high school students are still kids
  4. andave_ya's Avatar
    Yow, that's awful. Schools aren't supposed to give up so easily on kids -- I'm horrified to think what would have happened to me if I was schooling there. Between literary and mathematic academe I probably would have been labeled mentally deficient. ;p. In mathematics at any rate.