Los Angeles Is Magnet City For Stupid Students. Or Is That Stupid Teachers?

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LAUSD%27S+GRADUATION+RATE:+44%25+DISTRICT+6TH+WORST+AMONG+U.S.+CITIES,...-a0147315702
LAUSD'S GRADUATION RATE: 44% DISTRICT 6TH WORST AMONG U.S. CITIES, NEW STUDY FINDS.

Just 44 percent of Los Angeles Unified students receive a high school diploma making the 727,000-student district's graduation rate among the lowest of large urban school districts, a national study released Tuesday found. ... The study, which looked at U.S. Department of Education graduation rates for the 2002-03 school year, found California's graduation rate to be about 71 percent, slightly better than the nationwide average.

The Los Angeles Unified School District can take pride in knowing that there are school systems out there that are worse than they are. Although the L.A.U.S.D. are trying to use the "new math" to prove that there may be more than 5 other school districts doing a worse job.

Of course the parents may not be as happy at seeing that the L.A.U.S.D. pays the highest teachers salaries in the country and has the lowest education rate in the country (there goes that new math again). Considering how high the taxes are in Los Angeles and California, it is frustrating to know that it would be cheaper to send your child to some third world country and you would know you are providing a better education at a fraction of the cost.

"We have a 50 percent dropout rate amongst our students," Schwarzenegger said. "The grades are bad. I don't think they're really creating there the future for California."

Actually, the school system is creating a future. A future of welfare and unemployment. Not the kind of future I would choose for myself. But evidently the kind of future the "teachers" and the government have chosen for the students currently in the "educational" system.

Rhode Island Schools Have Radical Idea. Fire Teachers Who Don't Teach.

http://www.projo.com/education/content/central_falls_teachers.1_02-13-10_A8HEI7Q_v61.3a65218.html
Central Falls to fire every high school teacher

2008-2009: Test scores remain a problem at Central Falls High School as only 3 percent of 11th graders are proficient in math in 2008 and 7 percent in 2009.

Central Falls High School must be an interesting place to go to school. "Teachers" are not required to teach. Students are not required to learn. Factor in that the "teachers" are being paid a salary of 3.5 times the amount the average citizen earns in Central Falls, and you can begin to see the anger at the "teachers" and the school.

Of course, after the students graduate (does it count as graduation if you flunk all your courses all the time, but manage to show up for class most of the time) they may have difficulty getting any job that requires an education. But what does that have to do with schools?

But there was room for hope by the "teachers" union. From 2008 to 2009 the math proficiency scores improved from 3% to 7% of all the students attending the school.

If there actually was an increase in the math proficiency scores of 4% per year, and if this rate of increase stays steady, it will only take 12 years for 50% of the students to be able to master basic math proficiency by the time they graduate. Of course the 4% increase could be one time fluke. In which case, it could take hundreds of years to raise the proficiency scores to above 10% of the students. Let's not even think about the students that subjected to this kind of inadequate education.

Based on the test scores, and the "teachers" unwillingness to work with the administration to solve this problem, the school can now go out and hire baby sitters for $1 or $2 per hour and get at least the same test scores. And the students won't be any worse off than they would have been with the "teachers".