SLEEP it off Wrote:
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> Thomas More Wrote:
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> > SLEEP it off Wrote:
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> > > Farmer Brown Wrote:
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> > > -----
> > > > SLEEP it off Wrote:
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> > > > > How many of the 71 Virgina counties with
> > > later
> > > > > start times have only one or two high
> > schools?
> > >
> > > > > Does SLEEP really think the logistics of
> > > rural
> > > > > counties should be compared to suburban
> > > > counties?
> > > > > How naive and stupid.
> > > >
> > > > +1 Well put!
> > >
> > > I'll answer my own question.
> > >
> > > Based on VDOE data (see link below), 58% of
> > > Virginia's city/counties have only 1 high
> > school
> > > and 81% have 3 or fewer high schools. Va
> Beach
> > > has the second most - 13 high schools. VDOE
> > > counts 32 high schools in Fairfax County.
> > >
> > > SLEEP claims that 71 out of 95 counties have
> > start
> > > times after 8am (no source for this claim, of
> > > course), I guess to make it look like Fairfax
> > is
> > > out of step with the rest of Virginia. The
> > data
> > > clearly shows that Fairfax IS the outlier,
> > > graduating over twice as many students as any
> > > other system.
> > >
> > > Frankly, it doesn't matter what 71 other
> > counties
> > > do, since their demographics clearly don't
> > match
> > > ours. What does matter is that SLEEP
> continues
> > to
> > > spout nonsense in a sad attempt to guilt
> people
> > > into giving in to their demands.
> > >
> > > My source data:
> > >
> >
>
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/gra
>
> >
> > >
> >
> duation_completion/hs_grads_completers/2009-2010/g
>
> >
> > > rad_schl.xlsx
> >
> >
> > The later start time in other counties is the
> > reason for the lower graduation rates?
> Seriously?
>
> Again, I don't get your point. I didn't say
> anything about graduation rates. I said Fairfax
> graduates twice as many students as any other
> school system. Try reading sometime.
What does gross numbers of graduates has to do with start times? It's a non sequitar.