No Dropouts
This city’s new mayor ran on a ticket that pretty much was all about the public schools and the horrific dropout rate that this county and several of the neighboring counties are experiencing. For several years it has been widely reported that only about half of the kids entering the 9th grade make it all the way through high school to graduate. Each year from the 9th grade on about 10% of that class drops out. So the goal of our new mayor is to attack that dropout rate and find ways to keep the kids in school for all 12 years.
After about 8 months in office his special task force on education came back with two answers to the problem: pay teachers more money and hire more guidance counselors. OMFG - what a joke. That’s not an answer to the problems in our schools. What idiots!