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The school year ends with a sizzle: high temperatures and confusion over schedules. Many parents are in a lather over the school-to-school variation for the final days of the year, and child-care arrangements are being thrown into disarray.
How is the end of year going for you? What arrangements have you had to make for the "snow days" and, now, days of heat? Share your experiences here.
Assume 8 hours instead of 24 (hours of the school day rather than hours of the calendar day). With 180 days (the WV school calendar), 8 hours a day, and 857 dropouts per hour, the total is a little more than 1.2 million (closer to the Alliance for Excellent Education's figures). That is still a shocking number, totally unacceptable, and indicative of the fact that education *should* be a big issue.
The math here is off. If you take 857 students X 176 school days (in Illinois, not sure on other states) X 24 hours/day you get 3.6 MILLION dropouts. That is not a correct number. Either Mary Ann got her facts wrong or the folks from the Board are fudging numbers to make it look like education should be a bigger issue.
Here are statistics from the Alliance of Excellent Education that says the number of dropouts is less than half of what this article claims. http://www.all4ed.org/files/H...
The math here is somewhat off but it is still a surprisingly high number. All the teachers that are not doing their jobs should be fire because they are not doing anything right for students. Teachers must always create a safe and helpful environment for the students.
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