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So high school is just the jail alternative? If the kid don;t want to be there, are years behind what exactly makes you think they are showing up to class, or if they do, totally disruptive.

Yes, high school is a jail alternative for some kids. Exactly. And they are probably not the most attentive students and their attendance is likely not great.

However, the research is clear that if we instead hold these kids back, then more will drop out completely and more will end up in jail or dead. This is pretty awful, but it’s true.

Also, as a PP pointed out, plenty of kids who are not “proficient” on PARCC tests are, in fact, functionally literate and numerate. Those kids can get jobs rather than going to college, just like most Americans (62%).
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The school system that is supposed the entirety of children in a city cannot be simply a "jail alternative."  And if you keep the chronically truant, disruptive and inattentive in the classes with everybody else, then you will rapidly see the parents of every kid who doesn't fit into that category bolt for other alternatives as soon as they can obtain one.    Which is exactly where we are with every gen-ed EOTP high school.

Downsize central office and redeploy the funds for more boots on the ground personnel; reinstitute tracking for core subjects while at same time striving to identify and encourage kids who CAN do upper level work to go for those classes; implement robust CTE so that kids who are not into writing academic papers have an option to graduate from high school with employable trade skills that will enable them to be firmly in the middle class.[/quote]

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