Las Vegas High School Grad rate is 65%

[SVT4ME]

Am not knocking Las Vegas because I happen to love the place. We have 300 days of nice weather + 40 days of freaking HOT, Las Vegas Motor Speedway (NASCAR & IRL racing) Skiing at Mt Charleston, Nellis AFB & Creech AFB, Red Rock, Valley of Fire and all the entertainment the Casino's bring but this doesn't make the outlook very bright.

High school graduation rate increases to 65.1 percent - Las Vegas Sun

Is 65% High School graduation rate the norm or is it just unique to Las Vegas? It seems to be very low. Just wanted to hear what everyone had to say. This and unwed/deadbeat parents is what is killing this great country. What do you think?

 

[sub92loyill]

Yea, that's pretty damn low. What's "killing this country" is more than just bad parenting, though.

 

[bscarberry]

Hahahahahahaha, 65%... go take a gander at Detroit Schools Grad rate if you want a laugh

 

[f_rice]

Hahahahahahaha, 65%... go take a gander at Detroit Schools Grad rate if you want a laugh

Damn it, you beat me to it.

It is around 25%. So hundreds of millions of dollars are pissed away on what exactly? And god forbid we allow charter schools or voucher programs.

Government schools are disgusting, disgraceful mechanisms which abuse more children than drunken, horny, babysitting uncles.


I do not even have kids and I am forced to pay thousands in property taxes or the crooks will steal my house.

 

[SVTullio]

Ya the grad rate is pretty shitty here. But damn, 25% in detroit??!!

 

[SVT4ME]

My point was this is just the begining of the end. Either you don't graduate from HS or have a kid too young and it's just the begining of a horrible downhill slide. And yes there are always exceptions to the rules. But this starts them on the wrong path to life.

 

[ilovehuhu]

65% ?

 

[f_rice]

65% ?

65% ? The thread title says 66%, something must be wrong with your screen.

 

[FLYIN]

I am one of the lucky 65% that graduated high school in Las Vegas. Cheyenne High school class of 96.

 

[Steve@TF]

i was about to say that LA is pretty much about the same but its actually WORSE. FAR WORSE!

44% :burn:

Study Slams LAUSD Grad Rates - Los Angeles Times

luckily CA voters just shot down, BIG TIME, another billion dollar bond for education in last week's election. the schools have SO much money and it just gets wasted in the bureaucracy :nonono:

 

[Defknotzero]

Wow.

 

[LS2GTO]

Jeez, Detroit is that bad? So 3 out of 4 students walking down the hallways of that high school will not be graduating?

Honestly, I don't think there was 1 person in my entire senior class that did not walk at the end of the year.

 

[CPViolation]

I'm not going to pull a, "When I was a kid thing."
65%, 25%. That's downright embarrassing.

Sad, the greatest Country in the world full of illiterate kids..:bash:
Jeff

Edit:

Argument

The claim that more and more American students are dropping out of high school is false. According to the U.S. Census, more young people are graduating from high school than ever before -- a trend has continued for decades, and among all sub-groups of the population.

In 1970, 75 percent of young people aged 25 to 29 had graduated from high school. By 1990, that had risen to 86 percent. (1)

The following chart shows the rise in high school graduation rates for all sub-groups (except Asians, whose figures are unavailable):

Percent of population over age 25 who have completed 4 years of
high school or college (2)

High School:
Year Total White Black Hispanic
------------------------------------
1960 41.1% 43.2 20.1 NA
1970 52.3 54.5 31.4 32.1
1980 66.5 68.8 51.2 44.0
1990 77.6 79.1 66.2 50.8
1994 80.9 82.0 72.9 53.3

College:
Year Total White Black Hispanic
------------------------------------
1960 7.7% 8.1 3.1 NA
1970 10.7 11.3 4.4 4.5
1980 16.2 17.1 8.4 7.6
1990 21.3 22.0 11.3 9.2
1994 22.2 22.9 12.9 9.1

As for the high-school dropout rate itself, the trends are equally encouraging:

High school dropout rate, age 14-24 (3)

Year Total White Black Hispanic
------------------------------------
1970 12.2% 10.8 22.2 NA
1980 12.0 11.3 16.0 29.5
1990 10.1 10.1 10.9 26.8
1993 9.2 8.8 11.2 22.9

Why the lower dropout rates?

The above numbers refute conservative rhetoric that spending more on public education has only resulted in worse outcomes. In fact, about 3 percent of the increased spending on public education since 1965 has been devoted to keeping students in school. (4) Public educators have also spent more on school lunches and transportation, which provide further means and incentives for poor students to attend classes. Their success in reducing the dropout rate would indicate that this policy is effective, and conservatives have no case for arguing otherwise.

 

[CalcVictim]

81% for Massachusetts

Cohort 2008 Four-Year Graduation Rates - State Results - Information Services/Data Collection and Analysis

 

[JWSnake]

Wow that's sad :nonono:

 

[Bullitt995]

Jeez, Detroit is that bad? So 3 out of 4 students walking down the hallways of that high school will not be graduating?

Honestly, I don't think there was 1 person in my entire senior class that did not walk at the end of the year.

People who drop usually drop in the first two years. Look at your class size your Freshman year compared to your graduating class size.

 

[bscarberry]

The more staggering # for detroit is the % of kids who make it completely through the system. This number only deals with kids that start in detroit public schools and graduate there... no transfers. The graduation rate for them is 12%... the same as the mortality rate for the same demographic. A kid is just as likely to die in detroit as he is to graduate high school

 

[swoosh_stang]

One of the issues with that statistic is that the population in Las Vegas is so Transient.

That 35% of students that don't graduate doesn't account for students that move out of town.

And like it says in the article, the rate is very Dependant upon where the students go to school. Obviously in the better neighborhoods they are more likely to graduate.

 

[jsd512]

Deer Park, TX = 98.5% 65%, 25%, 44% is ****ing horrible.

 

[mellor_21]

we had twenty out of 65 drop out from freshman to senior at mine.. one of our teachers started crying about it a few days before graduation