(August 21, 2016 at 1:34 am)Brakeman Wrote:(August 20, 2016 at 11:42 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Without knowing the demographics of the student body as a whole (rather than just grad rates) it's hard to infer much outside the point that for one reason or another the students don't finish their programs. Perhaps they're transferring after getting their GE credits, perhaps they're dropping out.
But if blacks make up two percent of the student body, a 2% grad rate would be above average. Do you have baseline data?
No,
you are reading it wrong. The School is about half black as is our community. My daughter goes to school there.
Not sure how I was reading it wrong, as you didn't provide that information to begin with. Did you expect me to know that, without knowing where you live, what district she attends, or what the demographics are?
Perhaps -- just perhaps -- you simply didn't provide enough information to answer the question you posed.
And since you're posting numbers, let's get some support for them. What's the school's name, what's the community's name? Let the readership here delve the data.
(August 21, 2016 at 1:34 am)Brakeman Wrote: The RATE of graduation is markedly lower not the school make-up,
Okay. Can you supply demographics for the school in question? You seem to have good info on the graduation rate, certainly you've done your homework and have a link I can peruse to see the overall demographics. Please supply the baseline data that was requested, so that readers here can decide for themselves.
(August 21, 2016 at 1:34 am)Brakeman Wrote: Skin color should not have a segregating effect on graduation rate. I'm sure that it doesn't, it is a chosen culture that does, a chosen attitude.
Ah, is that it, then? Tell me how you're so sure that it's a choice.