Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Geogia's Graduation Rate
The topic that I chose to cover is the graduations rates in Georgia. In the article, http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/under-new-formula-georgia-graduation-rate-reset-to/nQSwk/, the author Nancy Badertscher stated that nearly a third of all Georgia students fail to graduate high school in four years. This has been a growing problem in Georgia seeing how the state has some of the lowest graduation rates in the country. Georgia's 2011 graduation rate has been reset at 67.4 percent, significantly below the old 80 percent mark. Georgia is not only concerned about high school students, but college students as well. In the article, http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/georgia-colleges-graduation-rates-unsatisfactory/nQmRT/ author Laura Diamond states that colleges can no longer enroll students and fail to graduate them. The University System of Georgia enrolls more than 310,000 students but less than 60 percent of them graduate within six years. Diamond goes on to say that starting in the 2012 school year, The Board of Regents are devising a new plan to increase college graduation rates. In the article http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/apr/11/georgia-grad-rate-falls-under-new-measure/ Kevin Hardy talks about the system for calculating graduation rates in 2011. The system included only the students who graduated in four years; students who took longer where forced at obtain their GED or another equivalent program .
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The reason why the graduation rate has lowered, in my honest opinion, is because the students fail to care. I have a teenage son and daughter, and as I've watched them grow into young adults, I payed attention to their actions and thoughts. I hear my daughter talk about all these students that she knows that only care about partying. Now, I'm not saying all the "drop-outs" per say are the ones who party and don't care about their education. There are certainly other factors involved in every person's life that may cause them to quit something they're doing. If I just stereotyped all the drop-outs as "party people" then I would be sufficiently ignorant. I'm just stating that more students need to care about their future and not just their social life.
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