Comments on: SC Graduation Rates: More Bad News

By: SC Educrats: The Tables Are Turning | South Carolina News Press | South Carolina Breaking News Headlines | SC

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:06:55 +0000

[...] appropriation and educational numbers weren’t on their side (far from it, in fact), though these well-heeled purveyors of disaster were nonetheless means to continue vital vast – [...]

By: SC Educrats: The Tables Are Turning: Why We Love Will Folks

SC Educrats: The Tables Are Turning: Why We Love Will Folks — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:02:11 +0000

[...] funding and academic numbers weren’t on their side (far from it, in fact), but these well-heeled purveyors of failure were nonetheless able to continue living large – [...]

By: lauren

lauren — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:09:40 +0000

The money’s not going toward school! It’s going towards lawyers trying to fight online charter schools. Our stupid state spent so much money on lawyers trying to fight online K-12 schools that teachers are being laid off! I converted to online school because of medical problems and becuase I couldn’t learn well in school, and I’m doing awesome in my classes. I got straight A’s for the first time. And I know why most of the kids at the brick and mortar schools near my house aren’t graduating, it’s becuase they’re getting pregnant or they’re drug addicts. I live in a pretty small town and they’re really nothing to do. It’s sad that students aren’t graduating. But I advise changing to online public/private schools. It helps and I’m actually on my way to graduating early!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:31:19 +0000

As a 2010 South Carolina graduate, I’d have to say this statistic is extremely skewed. Freshmen year my class had 500, and we graduated with 450 students. That’s 90%! And my county had a high retention rate. I think this is someone exaggerating a statistic to be funny, because this is not even close to correct.

By: BIN News Editorial Staff

BIN News Editorial Staff — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:43:28 +0000

Frank,

Sounds like you’re a closet voucher clown. Wake up and smell the voucher scam. Vouchers do nothing for those who need help the most.

Just that simple.

Think about it.

BIN News
Flair and Balanced

By: Frank's Interdiction

Frank's Interdiction — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:21:38 +0000

BIN – how is this “made up facts?
This is a third party report, authored by a left-leaning nonprofit?
I also do not understand how 61% is the rate of kids going from 9th on to 12th grade, but also the number of kids who get diplomas – there is NO way that each and every high school senior who starts the year goes on to get a full diploma at the end of the school year.
Sounds like more sketchy reporting from the Rutledge Building!

By: check this

check this — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:01:15 +0000

Not that is makes the graduation rate wonderful, but the statistics are somewhat misleading.

The numbers reflect the percantage of SC students that finish high school in four years. They do not take into account those that take an extra semester or year or summer to finish. Some also get GEd’s after they leave.

I’m not defending the educational system in SC, it needs major work, however an apples to apples comparison is in order.

The rate will still suck, by the way.

By: Alan Richard

Alan Richard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:52:04 +0000

It’s not correct to say that student achievement hasn’t improved in SC over time. Consistently, state test scores have risen on increasingly difficult tests that measure student performance on increasingly challenging academic standards. SC is doing well in this department. But more attention needs to be paid the low graduation rates, for sure. This is true not only in SC but in virtually all other states, as well.

By: ohara

ohara — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:48:39 +0000

This is what happens when you have a moron governor put in a home-schooling porn writer (“one of the governor’s closest education policy advisors for years”) as Chairwoman of the SC Board of Ed-u-ca-shun.

SC’s powers that be have no idea how to fix the mess they call a school system, especially the current flock of gubernatorial wanna-bees.

They need to look OUTSIDE SC & start interviewing academics who actually know what they are doing & have a proven track record. If they can turn this around in 10 years it will be a miracle. The whole state is one gigantic corridor of shame.

By: crosstown

crosstown — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:00:54 +0000

You could spend $100,000 annually on each kid’s edumacation in SC and would probably obtain similar failure rates.

It’s the parenting, stupid.

Irresponsible, lazy, worthless parenting results in abysmal student peformance.