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Originally Posted by smilin  Unless I'm misreading this wonderful piece of journalism, the statistics the author is quoting have nothing to do with actual yearly graduation rates.
The statistics are: "how many students graduate high school on time in four years. The report uses a formula that looks at attrition rates from one grade level to the next in high school".
The formula is for how many kids were held back a grade, so they could catch up. They then eliminated those kids from the overall rate.
Sort of blows a hole in the theory that the schools are promoting and graduating everybody. |
So in essence what your saying is that by keeping kids in skool until there 21(me thinks thats the leagal cutt-off) so that they can have accumulated enough time/credit to graduate is not social promotion. They figured out a way to cover up the obvious. Heck why not keep them in skool till there 25 or 30. I am sure by that time they would have been able to get them graduated. UNBELIEVABLE
