Bright man
Each year from the 9th grade on, about 10% of that class drops out. In today’s market place, a high school diploma is not a luxury, it’s an absolute necessity. There aren’t many jobs that don’t at least require a high school diploma anymore. Nashville, Tennessee’s new mayor ran on a ticket that was all about the public schools and the high dropout rate that this county and several of the neighboring counties are experiencing. So the goal of their new mayor is to attack that dropout rate.
The new mayor assigned a special task force on education to look into what could be done to combat this. They came back with two answers to the problem: pay teachers more money and hire more guidance counselors. That indeed may help but it’s not an answer to the problems in our schools. Maybe they all need to go back to school and they might learn a thing or two, ya think??? All that money he wasted on nothing when it could have gone into something that really might have helped.
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