Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Why We Have Problems
There's a reason why we are having so many problems in this state, and in other parts of this country. I was looking at the Detroit Free Press. Buried under "More stories…" can be found the article, " Only a quarter of Detroit high school students graduate in 4 years." Which basically means that: "The numbers, based on data from the 2003-04 school year, have Detroit -- for the second year in a row -- having the lowest graduation rate among the 50 largest urban districts in the country."You know what kind of stories are listed above that? Restaurant smoking bans, carjackings, the Sopranos, baseball and hockey, among others. What the hell kind of city is it that is more worried about how some TV show finished the season or if some pitcher will throw a baseball than the fact that 75% of its kids won't be graduating high school in four years? Of course the officials say the report is untrue, and it is probably slanted to make things look worse - but how much better can things actually be? I'm sure it's going to be refreshing to find out the percentage is only 50% instead of 25%.
This just goes way beyond sad and pathetic.
