Public schools and passing

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Public Schools Passing and Flunking
(Maybe dropout?)

In school you either pas or flunk, is there really a difference now days? There are two different systems of public schools. The first one is based principally, though not entirely, in the suburbs of the country, and in some of the wealthier urban jurisdictions. The second system is based principally in poorer and rural area.

The public school that is in the urban and wealthier parts of the country have a lower dropout rate, but they are passing more and more students that are not getting the proper education. These students are graduating but they are lacking the basic skills that they need to succeed in collage or a career. In doing this employers and collages are expecting these students to have mastered basic math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Instead they have to teach or the students have to take alternative school programs.

In the second public school system they are experiencing higher and higher dropout rates. This means we are having a huge amount of dropouts trying to go into the workforce and not understanding the basic skills that are required. The second school system is also seeing students receive their diplomas when they are not ready to receive them. The schooling districts are each having difficulties with the system, although the system in the poorer area is having even more issues. Why is this?

Money does matter in education, there’s no getting around that fact, but while money does matter it is not the only thing that matters. There are other things that can play a factor in a student’s education such as, school safety and discipline, teacher quality, and support from...

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...ing them and everyone else think that they are ready for it, when really they are not anywhere near ready. Most of these students that are getting push through the system are athletes. School take sporting events way more serious then they are taking the students education. They feel if they push their grade just a little higher, so they can play the next game, it is not going to hurt anything. The reality of this is that it is hurting something; it’s hurting the student making them really unprepared for the world outside of school and sports.

Having both schooling system flawed is a huge problem in the country, whether it’s having too high of a dropout rate, or passing students who need to be flunked. It is something we as a community really need to look at and try and come up with a plan too make schooling better for our children, because they are the future.

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