 | doobiesNhof (21)
05/21/2006 | Overcrowded classrooms, high dropout rate and poor preparation for college just to name a few of the problems.
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 | DumbBlondeCowgirl (23)
03/19/2006 | The school systems.....at least where I am living are a total crock. I'd almost rather homeschool my kids. I had a horrible time going to school here, and I know they haven't improved things. From what I can tell, its just getting worse. One of my old high schools is on the news regularly for some "incident" or another involving students and felony charges. And yet they have a full security staff, and police that patrol every day. This just blows my mind.
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 | Vudija (94)
03/19/2006 |  I don't know how it ranks on a nationwide scale, but from my own experience with it; I'd say it probably ranks fairly low.
I have mentioned, on several occassions, why I dislike it so much. When I moved here from Texas, I entered into 5th grade in a Florida elementary school. The kids here were just starting to cover basic fractions; a topic that I had learned and practically mastered in the 2nd grade back in Texas. I was in review until 8-9 grade when I was finally introduced to algebra studies. Reading was the same; the schools were still offering reading, as a class, up until 6-7 grade. And I don't mean English; the school offered both reading and English, to be taken side by side as a mandatory class. A mandatory class, because Florida's reading comprehension scores were dismal, to say the least.
On top of all of this, you have the fact that they rarely fail children. I went to school (11th grade) with a kid who couldn't read the most basic of sentences. He couldn't add, subtract, mulitply, or divide. Because this kid was always in trouble, no teacher was willing to fail him out of fear that they'd have him again the next year. He ended up dropping out of school. Maybe this is whyw e also have such a high drop out rate...
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