re: High school graduation rates

I’ve been a high school teacher for more than 25 years. I work in a good school and our graduates do better than any other school in the State in college. A house in our district costs over 500k.

We graduate a few kids every year who read and do math at a first or second grade level.

Couple of reasons but mainly if you fail a kid their parents hire a lawyer and that lawyer makes the life of every teacher and administrator miserable.

If a teacher fails to many students they get fired (a teacher can get fired in my State easily). So the rest of us learn to play the game.

I get to go to a meeting next week about why the 10% of students who are black have lower scores on standardized tests than even our white special Ed kids. Good times.