This is an issue in Delaware. I am not sure why our leaders cannot see what they have done to our educational system over the years. They have put practices in place that are hurting our children.
Valerie Strauss writes about a visit by President Obama to a highly selective public school in Washington, D.C. He brought with him his two Education Secretaries, Arne Duncan and John King.
He said he wanted every school to be as great as the school he was visiting, Benjamin Banneker. But there was much he did not mention.
Strauss writes:
“There’s no denying that Banneker is a top-performing school in the nation’s capital, and that 100 percent of its seniors graduate. But it’s unclear if Obama knows that if every school did what Banneker does, the high school graduation rate might plummet. That’s because Banneker is a magnet school where students must apply to get in — but the only entry grades are ninth and tenth. And they must maintain a B- average to stay. Kids who can’t cut it leave, but that attrition isn’t counted against the school’s graduation rate.”
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