The below was forwarded to all on January 25th, 2013 – I’m again forwarding it after reading a MD State Board report yesterday that for last year’s school year, 2011-2012, Somerset County had the “third worst” dropout rate in the State!! This most unfavorable data point is coupled with the financial report that shows for the same school year, our per student cost for Somerset was $13,900 – fourth highest in the State!! Fellow Board members, we must make “drop out rate” and its predecessor “truancy” – ---“SCPS BOE Special Items of Importance” such that our Administration will develop and implement a “correction plan” to these two, greatly disturbing and failing issues. We must get our “bang for the taxpayers bucks” – and these statistics patently show we are throwing good dollars down the drain. Time for immediate action – lets really take a hard look at “Graduation Matters – Somerset”.
9 comments:
If we don't band togather and get her out, we are going to loose everything. There has got to be a way ! How can people set by and let our schools fall apart. NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTIONS AND NOT WORDS ! !
Get rid of the studients in the class room that don't want to be there will go a long way to a better education for the ones that want one.
Dan Keubler is right on. Now is the time for parents and faculty to band together and turn this around. Administration needs to listen and listen big time. Dont let personal feeling interfere with a childs education. Stop the wastefull spending and look for something possitive. Dont pattern yourself after the federal government, work together. The feds have no direction at all
I would say some of the causes of the dropout rate are poverty, learning disabilities, lack of motivation, lack of support from family members and unplanned parenthood. Maybe interviews with dropouts would suggest different reasons. Until the causes can be determined, it could be difficult to.plan strategies to prevent students from leaving before graduation. Some causes can't be fixed.
Isn't our cost per student determined by dividing the total BOE budget by the number of students enrolled in SCPS? There are some employees who have no direct contact with students, whose positions are necessary. Other positions are just a waste of money. The cost of Dr. Miles' new furniture and the bonus budget are considered in the cost per student.
12:45 You are Right On !
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I agree that disruptive students distract from instruction, but if we get rid of them, our drop out rate rises. We have to find out why these students are acting out and what we can do to motivate them to follow rules and succeed on state assessments. We will most likely discover the solution to this situation at about the same time we learn to walk on water!
If a student drops out of school and earns a GED, is that student still listed as a drop out? If the student is enrolled in GED does he/she get included in those statistics?
After the students bombed the state's assessments in 2011 the tards at central office changed the grading policy so NO STUDENT could fail!! So students from K to 11th that year students that should have been failed moved on? The schools were already failing before that moron in charge lowered the standard just so seniors wouldn't drop out!! It's called relevancy, kids are dropping out cause they made elementary & secondary schools technological but skipped the high schools? Duh those kids have gone from high tech to "high school tech-less"! Society's driving force is technology not back to paper pencil, kids are bored and find no meaning in sticking around when they too can live off the government just as their role model parents are doing?? Effects of the Baby Boomers won't hold a candle to the Dumb Boom in the very near future!!
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