Well i would strongly disagree with that at least on Long Island we have a PRIVATE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM with poverty rates rangeing from 0% TO ABOUT 55% <br /><br />Some of the systems are within 2 miles of each other and the prevailing attitude is that if we can aford to pay more taxes are children should have a better PUBLIC SCHOOL <br /><br />And nobody is getting bussed into the better systems in fact they keep FULL TIME STAFF to stop border jumping into a better PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM<br /><br />In my last house we were in south country schools One of the poorest on LI<br /><br />metal detectors at the doors wand searches Gangs the whole deal<br /><br /> I was luckey that i have saved enough by then to move to Commack schools and it made the world of difference for my children to be in a place were learning and not dealing with discipline problems was the primary mission<br /><br />tommays
I wish Milwuakee Public High Schools saw that kind of percentage. I think the graduation rate is now down to the low 40's upper 30's.<br /><br />I went to a high school with a 98% graduation rate.....my class had 99%. Based on the fact that any decent paying job will usually rewuire hs education, I think it is a huge problem. Is it possible to get by without one; sure....... but its getting harder and harder
or wait, maybe I am functionally illiterate . . . Oh, no, wait, Hillary's village fixed me right up . . . I may have blamed parents as a reason for not getting a diploma, but it was not about pushing me to work harder in school. It was about who I was hanging around with and that I was too cool for school . . . Sometimes kids need simple guidance, not just allowing them to go to school <br /><br />A simple need of cash changed that attitude . . . I guess I got the cash from the "Village". Good thing the Village was investing in inventory and building new houses and thank the Village for moving goods produced by investments in machine tools, that required new trucks, that was encouraged by tax credits and the opportunity to become financially elite, that was driving the economy that got me a job that allowed me to get a check to buy stuff made by those machine tools and hauled by those trucks that were encouraged by the tax benefits and opportunity.<br /><br />I guess the Village could have fed me at the soup kitchen though if all of that was not happening. Yeah, that would've been nice . . .<br /><br />Oh, oh and if you are ever in a job interview and your are a dropout, when they ask if you have a HS Diploma, just nod your head up and down . . .
You are right ztim04 times have changed and technology have made it imperative that if you want a real good job you need specialized training. But some people have neither the desire nor the means to get the training. <br /><br /><br /> And I am not forgetting that we have between ten and twelve million illegals in this country looking for work. I am betting that not many of them have high school diplomas. I would also bet that not too many have special skills either. <br /><br /><br /> I am also going to make a guess that not half of them contribute to the tax or social security system. It seems to me that we would be better served if we could get the American high school high school dropouts working and paying into taxes and social security rather than having some illegals working off the books.<br /><br /> There is a whole lot of boomers coming of age pretty soon and they are wondering how the social security will be able to handle them, well this seems to be rather good place to start get some Americans on the books contributing to the system. <br /><br /> You constantly hear the Mantra that Americans will not do the work that the immigrants will do, thats BS.If your out of work and want to you will take what work you can get until something better comes along, or you get some training that will get you a better job.<br /><br /> Im betting that if you trace the saying that American will not take the job that illegles are doing you will find someone that has a history of hiring a lot if illegles
