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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shouldn't be suprised. Many segments of our population do not value education. Only 85% of Americans graduate high school and 30% graduate college.

Of those 85% who graduate high school, how many are just pushed through?

Take DCPS for example. Many kids entering high school ate reading at a 4th grade level.

No shit.[/quote]You do realize that the structure of the economy has changed in recent decades, right?  Many people used to be able to work at manufacturing jobs with a high school education that would give them a middle class salary.  Those  jobs have disappeared and there are fewer and fewer jobs that pay middle class salaries.  Not fair to attack people who have had the rug pulled out from underneath them.[/quote]

Facts are not an attack. No college degree? The outcomes are fairly predictable. No high school degree? Well, yea, that's a no brainer, no pun intended.

We don't exactly have tax or labor policies that can compete with manufacturing jobs in China and vietnam. They pay well below our minimum wage and have very loose labor laws. That leaves only one option : education. Whining about the past doesn't change the realities of today's  global economy. The gap will widen if these large segments of uneducated Americans don't start valuing education [/quote]

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