California Dropouts Cost Big Money
03/01/2008
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California's descent into becoming the backward society of Mexifornia is forecast most sharply in the failing school system, largely because so many children are foreign born (particularly from Hispanic countries) or live in households where English is not spoken and scholarship is not valued. According to California's Legislative Analyst Office, 25 percent of the state's K-12 students are English language learners.

(In the US as a whole, approximately 5.5 million students, nearly one-tenth of the total, are ESL students, who speak English as a second language if at all.)

Each year, about 120,000 students fail to get a diploma by age 20, according to the California Dropout Research Project, which on Wednesday released detailed recommendations for state lawmakers and educators.

Each annual wave of dropouts costs the state $46.4 billion over their lifetimes because people without a high school diploma are the most likely to be unemployed, turn to crime, need state-funded medical care, get welfare and pay no taxes, according to the report. [High school dropouts cost state billions, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 29, 2008]

But instead of slowing the entrance of millions of foreign students (many from Mexico, which has one of the world's most anti-education cultures), the report suggests that standards be lowered.
The state should instead require schools to improve at a faster rate, the report says.

One way to do that would be for schools to change their graduation requirements and spend less time on academics alone; they should teach more "soft skills" such as how to be punctual, persistent and work well in groups - all valuable "if California wants to truly prepare its students for life beyond high school," says the report.

Dumbing down schools to thwart genuine education is an effective strategy for implanting the third world within the first — pronto!
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