Isn't it marvelous?
Why, South Carolina has really improved its schools. Not.
Saying that our graduation rate is nearly 85 percent is akin to trumpeting the fullness of your mug of beer after adding another half a can.
Lest anyone fail to fathom what I mean, consider that 60 is now a passing grade. Makes you wonder if schools shouldn't retroactively award diplomas to those who failed to walk the stage because of grades below 70.
If you glanced at the percentages of students who the ACT results demonstrated are not college (or even work) ready, you might wish to ask what percentage of the year's graduates could read their diplomas. Too many students failing to graduate? Lower the standards. Why don't we lower the standards so that 100 percent graduate.
That wouldn't be much more meaningless.
""Instead of changing the fundamentals of 'Why isn’t education working?' and doing the hard work in that, they dumb it down and claim victory,' said attorney Larry Kobrovsky, a former State Board of Education member and current chairman of the Charleston County Republican Party. He predicted last year that the graduation rate would spike, and now it's happening."
We are rapidly reaching the point where a high school diploma merely represents how much time a student has spent in classrooms.
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