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Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
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Ffbcjb
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Date: April 19, 2019 06:18PM
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
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Read your own article
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Date: April 19, 2019 07:55PM
I am guessing you missed the part where it said grad rates for kids with limited English proficiency went up.
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
Posted by:
jfftydyrsyrs
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Date: April 19, 2019 10:12PM
Read your own article Wrote:
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> I am guessing you missed the part where it said
> grad rates for kids with limited English
> proficiency went up.
that is not graduation rates
seems you would not do well in the reading comprehension section of life
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> I am guessing you missed the part where it said
> grad rates for kids with limited English
> proficiency went up.
that is not graduation rates
seems you would not do well in the reading comprehension section of life
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
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Libs failed math
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Date: April 19, 2019 10:54PM
Read your own article Wrote:
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> I am guessing you missed the part where it said
> grad rates for kids with limited English
> proficiency went up.
The percentage went up for that group from 40% to 46%. But that ignores the absolute and relative numbers in the system. Which if increasing for that group relative to the numbers of others would lower the overall average rate.
i.e., If you add 10,000 of the 46%ers to the school system and the numbers of English-speaking white and Asian kids (with rates in the 90s) in the system remain the same, then the overall rate will drop even though the rate within that 46% group may increase. Furthermore, what tends to happen is that you have flight of better students from the schools so over time you reduce the quality of what's left even within the better group.
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> I am guessing you missed the part where it said
> grad rates for kids with limited English
> proficiency went up.
The percentage went up for that group from 40% to 46%. But that ignores the absolute and relative numbers in the system. Which if increasing for that group relative to the numbers of others would lower the overall average rate.
i.e., If you add 10,000 of the 46%ers to the school system and the numbers of English-speaking white and Asian kids (with rates in the 90s) in the system remain the same, then the overall rate will drop even though the rate within that 46% group may increase. Furthermore, what tends to happen is that you have flight of better students from the schools so over time you reduce the quality of what's left even within the better group.
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
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Again read your own article
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Date: April 19, 2019 11:52PM
Except the rates for Asians and Whites went down. That means even if the number of kids with limited English proficiency had held steady the grad rates would still have dropped.
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
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Progressives r so fucking dumb
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Date: April 20, 2019 12:04AM
Read your own article Wrote:
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> I am guessing you missed the part where it said
> grad rates for kids with limited English
> proficiency went up.
So if 90% of the 20% of ESL spics didn't graduate in 2018, and 80% of the 35% didn't graduate in 2019, could it still be possible that graduation rates continued to fall?
Why are progressives so fucking stupid? It's a serious question - are they actually stupid, or is their world view so overpowered by emotion that they just seem totally irrational? It can only be one or the other.
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> I am guessing you missed the part where it said
> grad rates for kids with limited English
> proficiency went up.
So if 90% of the 20% of ESL spics didn't graduate in 2018, and 80% of the 35% didn't graduate in 2019, could it still be possible that graduation rates continued to fall?
Why are progressives so fucking stupid? It's a serious question - are they actually stupid, or is their world view so overpowered by emotion that they just seem totally irrational? It can only be one or the other.
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
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Progressives must go
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Date: April 20, 2019 12:08AM
Again read your own article Wrote:
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> Except the rates for Asians and Whites went down.
> That means even if the number of kids with limited
> English proficiency had held steady the grad rates
> would still have dropped.
Gee, I wonder why that would happen? Couldn't be that when you're forced to divert all your resources to educating several other countries poorest and dumbest, you can't focus your very limited resources on your own, legal citizens. What sort of country would be that fucking stupid to do such a thing? What sort of person would advocate for doing something so insane?
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> Except the rates for Asians and Whites went down.
> That means even if the number of kids with limited
> English proficiency had held steady the grad rates
> would still have dropped.
Gee, I wonder why that would happen? Couldn't be that when you're forced to divert all your resources to educating several other countries poorest and dumbest, you can't focus your very limited resources on your own, legal citizens. What sort of country would be that fucking stupid to do such a thing? What sort of person would advocate for doing something so insane?
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
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Herbert Kornfeld
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Date: April 20, 2019 08:24AM
We all know the libtard answer to illegals not graduating - lower the standards. I mean, isn't it racist to require them to read?
Re: Illegals cause MCPS graduation rate to drop further
Posted by:
Bill.N.
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Date: April 20, 2019 11:50AM
Progressives must go Wrote:
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>
> Gee, I wonder why that would happen? Couldn't be
> that when you're forced to divert all your
> resources to educating several other countries
> poorest and dumbest, you can't focus your very
> limited resources on your own, legal citizens.
The real problem isn't that school systems such as Fairfax and Montgomery were hit with a wave of undereducated students with a poor command of English. The problem was the way those school systems chose to respond to the challenge. We did not choose to provide these special needs students with their share of resources in the form that would best address their needs. Instead we chose to provide these students with all the resources the other students get, plus additional resources on top of that to address their needs. This was done by reducing the resources that were available to the rest of the students. Then since there were parents with clout or kids in favored programs we chose not to reduce the resources available to them, further reducing the resources available to the rest. This gave us an hourglass resource allocation with students on the bottom and top receiving far more resources per student than the population in the middle. In simple math, in a group of thirty students you have 10 that are getting 50% of the resources, or 5% each, 5 favored students getting 16.67% of the resources or 3 1/3% each, and the remaining half of the students getting 331/3% of the resources or 2.2% each, instead of each kid getting 3 1/3% of the resources. This cannot be sustained without adverse consequences.
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> Gee, I wonder why that would happen? Couldn't be
> that when you're forced to divert all your
> resources to educating several other countries
> poorest and dumbest, you can't focus your very
> limited resources on your own, legal citizens.
The real problem isn't that school systems such as Fairfax and Montgomery were hit with a wave of undereducated students with a poor command of English. The problem was the way those school systems chose to respond to the challenge. We did not choose to provide these special needs students with their share of resources in the form that would best address their needs. Instead we chose to provide these students with all the resources the other students get, plus additional resources on top of that to address their needs. This was done by reducing the resources that were available to the rest of the students. Then since there were parents with clout or kids in favored programs we chose not to reduce the resources available to them, further reducing the resources available to the rest. This gave us an hourglass resource allocation with students on the bottom and top receiving far more resources per student than the population in the middle. In simple math, in a group of thirty students you have 10 that are getting 50% of the resources, or 5% each, 5 favored students getting 16.67% of the resources or 3 1/3% each, and the remaining half of the students getting 331/3% of the resources or 2.2% each, instead of each kid getting 3 1/3% of the resources. This cannot be sustained without adverse consequences.