joanna bujes wrote:
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> I've been dealing with students for almost thirty years, one way or
> another. It kind of depends what students you're talking about.
> The high school drop out rate in Oakland is 50% and overall,
> language/writing skills have seriously, seriously deteriorated.
This thread reminds me of a bunch of decrepit old coots sitting in front of 1905 general store going on and on about how this here generation has just plumb gone to the dogs.
Do you people realize how utterly ridiculous you are sounding. I went to a three-room rural elementary school. Half my 8th grade class didn't even go on to highschool. Only 2 out of 20 of us every went to college.
Carrol