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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we retained all the kids who needed to, we’d dramatically increase costs. Those kids would take fourteen years to go through the system, instead of thirteen. We don’t have the money or space for that, but I wish we did. [/quote]

More than that.  There are many kids that don’t come, don’t care, won’t do the work, parents don’t help them at home.  An extra year isn’t going to make a difference.  They will still be far behind. [/quote]

I feel it is ok if they don't finish HS.  As long as they have been made to repeat grades in ES and MS, they will at least have an elementary or 
 middle school education and mastery of that content.  They are fine to drop out of HS.  At least with repeating grades (and being taught the content well in lower grades)  they are literate.

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I mean, you can “feel” that way, but without a high school diploma, no one will hire them, so enjoy your cripplingly massive tax hikes to pay for them.[/quote]

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