AFP | Apr. 1, 2008
Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday.
In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America Promise Alliance also showed that the high school graduation rate — finishing 12 grades of school — in big cities falls to as low as just 34.6 percent in Baltimore, Maryland, and barely over 40 percent for the troubled Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland.
And it said that black and native American student’s have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a high school diploma.
“Our analysis finds that graduating from high school in America’s largest cities amounts, essentially, to a coin toss,” the study said.
“Only about one-half (52 percent) of students in the principal school systems of the 50 largest cities complete high school with a diploma.”
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The fruits of liberation theology are the abysmal graduation rates. At least the slaves received an equivalent education similar to the “secret schools” operated by priests during Greece’s War of Independence. Today’s drop outs join gangs just like the Greek villagers became “andartes” in Greece after WW II. Both groups are illiterate and refused to attend church. The past is repeating itself to America’s detriment.
It is quiet revealing, at least to me, that the civil rights movement began with equal access to education (Brown vs. Board of Education) and that numerous young black people risked their lives to attend previously all-white schools yet now, somehow, acquiring an education makes one no longer black. Education is only for whitey, not for real black folk. Many black leaders have become Simon Legrees wishing to force those they call Uncle Toms back to the plantation, flaying their souls to the bone to get it done.
They have no shame, humility or love only the desire for power and control.
Amen and amen and preach on brother-man.