One-Third of LA Public School Students Dropped Out Over Past Four Years

[gtc08]

One-third of LAUSD students dropped out over past four years

<!--subtitle--><!--byline-->By George B. Sánchez, Staff Writer
<!--date-->Article Last Updated: 07/16/2008 04:49:27 PM PDT

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<script language="JavaScript"> if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } </script>VAN NUYS -- One-third of Los Angeles Unified high-school students dropped out over the past four years, according to a new study of California dropout rates released today. The statewide dropout rate was 24.2 percent, according to the study released by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell in a press conference held at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys.
"This represents a crisis," O'Connell said.
The numbers were derived from a new computer system that tracks public school students and verifies where they end up when they transfer.
Previous studies of dropout rates were seen as highly inaccurate because of inadequate tracking when students left a school to transfer.
While LAUSD's dropout rate was higher than the state average, it was lower than that of other troubled districts such as Oakland Unified, which stood at 37.4 percent, and Fresno Unified, at 35.1 percent.
george.sanchez@dailynews.com 818-713-3738

 

[mamatried]

One-third of LAUSD students dropped out over past four years

<!--subtitle--><!--byline-->By George B. Sánchez, Staff Writer
<!--date-->Article Last Updated: 07/16/2008 04:49:27 PM PDT

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<script language="JavaScript"> if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } </script>VAN NUYS -- One-third of Los Angeles Unified high-school students dropped out over the past four years, according to a new study of California dropout rates released today. The statewide dropout rate was 24.2 percent, according to the study released by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell in a press conference held at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys.
"This represents a crisis," O'Connell said.
The numbers were derived from a new computer system that tracks public school students and verifies where they end up when they transfer.
Previous studies of dropout rates were seen as highly inaccurate because of inadequate tracking when students left a school to transfer.
While LAUSD's dropout rate was higher than the state average, it was lower than that of other troubled districts such as Oakland Unified, which stood at 37.4 percent, and Fresno Unified, at 35.1 percent.
george.sanchez@dailynews.com 818-713-3738

The next time Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al try to blame high unemployment in urban areas on racism, maybe someone should bring this up to them.

 

[BigOrange+]

That's because most of them are 18 by the time they reach 10th grade and it is welfare time for them.

 

[quantumleap]

Mayor Villaraigosa: LAUSD dropout rate even higher

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_9916665


Sharply disputing a state report, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday said he believes the dropout rate at Los Angeles schools is even worse than the dismal 33 percent estimated by state officials.
Villaraigosa, who previously used the dropout-rate issue as leverage to take control of a handful of schools, said the new state figures released Wednesday did not take into account all relevant factors.
For example, he said, the state report did not count students who dropped out before ninth grade.
"I'm heartened they are highlighting the dropout issue, but I know it is higher than they are saying," Villaraigosa said. "We know it's 50(percent) to 60 percent and in some parts of the city 65(percent) or 70percent."
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell on Wednesday released a report showing the dropout rate in districts throughout the state, trying to quell years of debate over the issue.
O'Connell said Los Angeles Unified has a dropout rate of 33.6 percent, above the state average of 24.6 percent.
The new report, which tracked each student using a unique identification number, was heralded by education experts and local school officials as a new benchmark to measure dropout rates and end the debate over the accuracy of figures cited in the past.
Deputy State Superintendent Rick Miller on Thursday stood by the results of the state's work. "This is not a study," Miller said.
"Everything before this was a study. We looked at individual students by their ID number and reported on whether they were enrolled or not. If the mayor would look at our documentation, he would see what we did."
LAUSD Senior Deputy Superintendent Ray Cortines did not dispute the state's report, even after hearing Villaraigosa's statement. "

 

[Romanowski]

the democratic party thanks the teachers unions for their generous contribution:toast:


:cripwalk:

 

[bblight]

I wonder when they'll get around to asking why inner city drop out rates are so high? Could it be because the system has educated the kids into apathy?



Of course, You'll never hear any of the union hacks and politicians asking what the education system is there to do or how can we get the students to stay in the classroom?

I always thought the system was there to train the students to be the best citizens and most productive workers they could be, but the hacks seem to focus all of their attention on sex education and good feelings rather than the three "R's.

And lets not forget the system fights to keep the thugs in the classroom with normal kids - as though such "equality" will help the thugs succeed rather than disrupt the clessroom with their antics.

I think the teachers unions and supporting hackorama can hold their heads up high as they recognize that their classroom has become a national joke.

 

[gtc08]

parents also have gone missing nationally. i really wish we could just erase the post ww2 births in this country, say 1945-50. thats when we began to get lazy, and we've been paying for it with progressively worse generations of people.

anyone who is 53-58 now i wish never existed since they are to blame for the horrible american kids these days.

 

[bblight]

parents also have gone missing nationally. i really wish we could just erase the post ww2 births in this country, say 1945-50. thats when we began to get lazy, and we've been paying for it with progressively worse generations of people.

anyone who is 53-58 now i wish never existed since they are to blame for the horrible american kids these days.

Huh?

I see that the parents are again to blame while the students and teachers are ignored.

No show parents are a fact - get over it and focus on placing fault where it belongs - on the students and teachers.

The ACLU and do-gooders have taken marshal punishment out of the classroom and have replaced it with "feel good" - so sorry, but a teenage boy on a testesterone high needs a slap up the side of the head to get and hold his attention and his respect.

The government hackorama has destroyed more lives than drugs and war ever could.

 

[gtc08]

Huh?

I see that the parents are again to blame while the students and teachers are ignored.

No show parents are a fact - get over it and focus on placing fault where it belongs - on the students and teachers.

The ACLU and do-gooders have taken marshal punishment out of the classroom and have replaced it with "feel good" - so sorry, but a teenage boy on a testesterone high needs a slap up the side of the head to get and hold his attention and his respect.

The government hackorama has destroyed more lives than drugs and war ever could.

parents deserve 95 percent of the blame. face facts, the american has gotten worse and worse after that time period, and it was noted that americans began to get lazy during that time period. theis is when the boob box hit its prime, and its been downhill since.

 

[eek.]

We never had any problems when we were allowed to beat the little bastards.

All the problems nowadays stem from the government and liberal social workers giving children too much power.

Apparently you have to be a rocket scientist to realise that children with too much power is a bad thing for society.

:grandmais

 

[bblight]

We never had any problems when we were allowed to beat the little bastards.

All the problems nowadays stem from the government and liberal social workers giving children too much power.

Apparently you have to be a rocket scientist to realise that children with too much power is a bad thing for society.

:grandmais

I agree with you 100% eek - the problems started when they took the stick out of the classroom and replaced it with "nurturing".

The moonbats fall for this "blame the parents" crap while giving the students and the teachers union hackorama a free ride.

 

[eek.]

And as usual the Government has insufficient resources to carry out the enforcement required to supervise millions of these immune-from-adult-discipline kids rampaging about and causing chaos now.

Talk about creating a self-made disaster, then saying "its a problem".

It's like with traffic systems.
Build a new traffic light system, generate gridlock in the city then blame the poor fuckers who have to live in this new dumbass local government traffic system.

 

[gtc08]

people who are against blaming the parents are the problem. eek, what would you do if your kid called you a asshole or bitch. these days you touch him the kid will take you to court.

its the gov and parents. my main problem with the country now is the gov. not efficient like a canada where people have moral and ethical values.

 

[mamatried]

parents also have gone missing nationally. i really wish we could just erase the post ww2 births in this country, say 1945-50. thats when we began to get lazy, and we've been paying for it with progressively worse generations of people.

anyone who is 53-58 now i wish never existed since they are to blame for the horrible american kids these days.

Er, I think based on the dates you cite you wish people 63-68 never existed.

You're obviously a product of the US public education system.

 

[gtc08]

Er, I think based on the dates you cite you wish people 63-68 never existed.

You're obviously a product of the US public education system.

keep your pants on, i was typing in a frenzy and mistyped.

 

[eek.]

what would you do if your kid called you a asshole or bitch. these days you touch him the kid will take you to court.

He wouldn't have done that 40 years ago because he'd get a good slap.

He does it NOW because he's been given a free pass to be an asshole by those government and liberal social workers.

:grandmais

It's a government policy problem that the government won't deal with because the government never had the resources for it to start with.

Only wider society has the resources.

Free and instant civilised society solution: SLAP!

(...and that slap didn't cost a fucking penny, not a cent.)

 

[mamatried]

He wouldn't have done that 40 years ago because he'd get a good slap.

He does it NOW because he's been given a free pass to be an asshole by those government and liberal social workers.

:grandmais

It's a government policy problem that the government won't deal with because the government never had the resources for it to start with.

Only wider society has the resources.

Free and instant civilised society solution: SLAP!

(...and that slap didn't cost a fucking penny, not a cent.)

Have to disagree, eek. As the father of a 3 year old, I'm convinced that disciplining children with violence only begets more violence. It teaches them that violence is a solution to any problem. I ride the bus to work everyday with inner city mothers and their babies, and I can tell you that a day hardly goes by when I don't hear one of the moms threaten to slap or smack their kid upside their head, or actually witness them do it. And I guarantee you that 15 years from now many of those kids will be the ones causing problems in society.

That's not to say that disciplining isn't necessary, or that you shouldn't teach kids to defend themselves. But there are ways to do discipline without getting physical.

 

[eek.]

It generates mutual respect and responsibility, and any adult who goes too far gets called out.

Nowadays kids are feral animals protected by the state, and most adults avoid contact whenever possible, so these kids run wild.

Once a kid gets past 18 then it changes from a federally protected animal into a human being, an adult, and young and old adults can interact as equals.

 

[eek.]

As the father of a 3 year old

You can't even consider slapping a kid until it's about 10 imo, once it's developed more self awareness.

Below 10 is a baby.

(Being threatening was always enough in my experience)

 

[JoeContrarian]

The feminization of society.

Socialism = failure.