Stop High School Drop Out Rate By Addressing the Real Problems Instead of Traditional Symptoms
High school drop out rates are being released nationwide according to a new formula mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law. These rates may cause both taxpayers and parents to once again scratch their heads and ask the simple question What is the cause to drop high school given all the billions of dollars that are continually poured into these public schools to ensure acceptable high school graduation rates
In Indiana, for example, data now suggests that 1 out of 4 students on a statewide average drops out of high school. Within the next couple of months, every individual school district within the United States will release their own high school graduation rates.
The NCLB calculation is lot more about common sense than many educators wish to admit to parents and taxpayers. Instead of figuring graduation rates from the beginning of the senior year to the end of the senior year, schools are being forced to report graduation rates based on those who entered as freshman and those who graduated as seniors. Recently, I have informally surveyed over 100 parents and 99 of them thought that this was how graduation rates were actually calculated. Given that schools receive on an average of $10,000 per year from taxpayers’ dollars for each student in the public school system for each year by not including those who left school before graduation skews both the effectiveness and efficiency of public education. Maybe that is why some superintendents feel that their response to this common sense approach is moral outrage about policing students instead of addressing the real reasons that schools are failing to graduate students.
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Free Online High Schools For Homeschoolers
The tide has turned in the last couple of years. For a very long time, I wrote many articles about online high schools, but few were free. That has most definitely changed and for the better. We now have Connections Academies, Insight Schools, Advanced Academics, and more that are available in many states. The Best Online High Schools website lists almost a hundred such schools.
However, just because it is free does not mean it is the perfect choice for you. Oh, and by the way, they are not really free because our tax dollars are paying for them. That being said, homeschoolers have unique needs, interests, and desires in terms of curriculum.
I encourage you to look at the following