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If you have 2 friends and they get through this school year, you are gonna drop out.
![]() 09/02/2014 at 00:12 |
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Is that how math works?
![]() 09/02/2014 at 00:13 |
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If you have 2 friends this week, you have 2 more friends than me.
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Something like that.
![]() 09/02/2014 at 00:14 |
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I don't have to worry!
I have no friends.
![]() 09/02/2014 at 00:15 |
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Why? Why drop out?
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Is the dropout rate REALLY that high? There's no way.
![]() 09/02/2014 at 01:52 |
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According to that bus it is.
![]() 09/02/2014 at 05:01 |
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No, 1/3 the students in your average high school don't drop out. In 95% of the country, backwoods schools with minimal budgets and bureaucracy manage to graduate 85-90% of their students.
That's canceled out by a handful of mega-school systems in Chicago, Detroit, New Jersey, and DC with huge populations, budgets, and political machines that "graduate" 50-60%, often through social promotion. And in Chicago's case, they're rewarded with record funding every year, while enrollment keeps dropping...