Dropout rate

It's been a while since my last post and I regret to inform everyone that I just haven't been keeping up with current events.

This posting is just a spout off on the education system.

Can you believe that the drop out rate from high school has risen in recent years. Heck, Detroit's dropout rate is over 75% of all students graduating. That's deplorable. I guess no one wants to take responsibility for it. At least George W. Bush is making an attempt with his "No Child Left Behind" Act. It has it's problems, but at least it's an an attempt. Anything is better than doing nothing.

Personally speaking, if I had the education behind me I might consider it, but the state I live in absolutely sucks in the needs of both the students and the educators. No one government anywhere in the USA pays enough to make it worth one's while to teach, and the students just don't give a shit anymore... So I guess I'm sort of glad that I'm old enough to not really care, even though privately I do care.

I can say this much right now. There is no incentive to either teach or learn. And in order for anything to work, there has to be a complete overhaul at the State (not Federal) level to make things work.

So if there are any State officials out there that care read the following.

Be Responsible.
Make people (Parents, students, everyone) responsible.
Raise the pay rate for teachers. Make it worth a person's time to teach.
Make it available to the public - a bootstrap program for adults that want to teach, but don't have the education to back it up
Raise the bar on the students. Don't lower standards.
Most of all... get everyone involved in the process.

That's all I have to say on the matter. Because if we do not do anything about this problem, we'll have more to worry about than a "recession".