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REX BLAMES STATE’S ASTRONOMICAL DROPOUT RATE ON A FEW ISOLATED DISTRICTS
South Carolina’s state schools superintendent has apparently added a new phrase to his lexicon: “dropout factories.”
Jim Rex used the slogan in a speech last week to describe South Carolina’s failing public schools and their astronomical dropout rates.
“We have some districts and some schools that are pulling our state averages down,” Rex said. “I sometimes — I probably shouldn’t use this word — I sometimes call these areas dropout factories.”
Rex said the reason that only 55.6 percent of South Carolina students graduate on time was largely due to these few, isolated schools. He further blamed buildings, teachers, curriculum and low expectations for causing the “dropout factory” effect.
But, as the Voice for School Choice noted, “a statewide 55.6 percent graduation rate is not the result of a few isolated ‘dropout factories.’”
And when we are spending more than $11,000 per student — much of which never even makes it to the classroom — funding isn’t the problem either.
Perhaps the problem is Jim Rex. Perhaps the problem is the absurd amount of money and resources wasted on Department of Education bureaucracy. And perhaps it’s made worse by the fact that it’s all hidden from taxpayers.
I’m going to be big this morning and give us all something to think about. When God was taken out of the schools, guns went in, disorder went in.
When I went to school, we pledged to the flag and had a prayer every single morning. The drop out rate was high then but not nearly as high as now.
When this money runs out, and the economy is still busted up because Fidelity is handling the US Treasury not the government,
we will all be living in third world conditions and drop out rates won’t matter one iota.
Haven’t ya’ll noticed everyone’s standard of living has been affected.
Well that in turn will affect drop out rates even more.
No money, no school
no school MORE CRIME
[...] The Fairfield County Democrat took office in January 2007 and has proceeded to run the state education department into the ground by turning public schools into what he refers to as “dropout factories.” [...]
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[...] Less than 44 cents per dollar actually makes it to the classroom. The state has a pathetic 55.6 percent graduation rate. And State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex openly refers to school as “dropout factories.” [...]
[...] And nearly half of high schools in South Carolina are, as State School Superintendent Jim Rex calls them, “Dropout factories.” [...]
[...] That means, despite spending more than $12,000 on each student in this state, State School Superintendent Jim Rex and his band of educrats that oversee public education have still allowed nearly half of the state’s schools from becoming “dropout factories.” [...]