Central Falls, RI fires every teacher in HS

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Actually, that information wouldn't be too difficult to come by.

In Texas, TEA publishes graduation/retention rates annually. I'm sure other states are similar. If all of Detroit is covered by the same district (looks like most, if not all schools, fall under DPS), then that information would be relatively easy to find.

In the city of Detroit proper, yes. There are many, many school districts in metro Detroit however. An assumption that all teachers who would be friends of someone who is from the Detroit area actually work in Detroit is pretty broad. Regardless, he makes those statements to get people worked up. Additionally, so many people have left the city that it's nearly impossible to figure out what the real graduation rate is. There is no way to follow kids who move out of the district to see if they graduated.

They determine graduation rate by taking the number of freshman and comparing to how many kids actually graduate 4 years later. Where a population is experiencing a significant decline, it's not a valid measure.

As for the original article, it astonishes me that they think this is going to fix the problem. Astonishes me.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by AGDee

In the city of Detroit proper, yes. There are many, many school districts in metro Detroit however. An assumption that all teachers who would be friends of someone who is from the Detroit area actually work in Detroit is pretty broad. Regardless, he makes those statements to get people worked up. Additionally, so many people have left the city that it's nearly impossible to figure out what the real graduation rate is. There is no way to follow kids who move out of the district to see if they graduated.

They determine graduation rate by taking the number of freshman and comparing to how many kids actually graduate 4 years later. Where a population is experiencing a significant decline, it's not a valid measure.

As for the original article, it astonishes me that they think this is going to fix the problem. Astonishes me.

Oh, I know that MM is just saying these things to get folks worked up. I was just pointing out that it's not impossible to get the information.

And I realize that there are more districts in the metro area (I live in DFW, which takes suburban sprawl to a new level), but it looked like MM was referring to Detroit proper.