Thursday, May 19, 2005
Schooling woes
It's this kind of thing that really irks me and creates a desire to enroll the kids to private/charter/catholic/home schooling environments.
- "In reading the analyses accompanying studies conducted by American universities, it is interesting to note a great deal of discussion about such "contributing factors" as social behavior, academic self-concept, parenting styles, and socio-economic status of students. In other words, looking for excuses to explain the failure of American education has taken a great deal of time and effort. Wading through all these reasons for poor performing students does not lend itself to a short commentary, but given the industrial strength of the United States, should we assume that our country's economic success has been achieved in spite of, rather than as a result of, our educational system?
The numbers seem consistent, however. Thirty percent of graduating high school seniors attend college, and of those, only about 30% actually graduate. Of the 70% of students who graduate and do not attend college (at least immediately), few if any have ever received any meaningful technical or vocational training. The average income in the United States, at least according to the Bureau of the Census, is $43,318.00, but income averages among minorities and women are significantly less. Approximately 12.5% of the nation's working population is below the poverty level for the United States, which factors out at 36 million people -- an increase from the year 2002. The real income of the lowest 20% of all income earners declined 1.9% through the end of 2003. Of the 36 million poor people, 90% are minorities. "
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