Actually wheelchair, you have hit on one of the primary reasons there is so many impoverished people in this country. Keep in mind I'm excluding the severely disabled community from the comment, for right now. I don't know the exact stats, but I heard that the true rates of graduation from high school are much lower than people realize.
For instance, here in Florida they do not count the dropouts when they are touting their graduation percentage. It's an absolute travesty. It's something were done to reform the education system properly in this country, we would have a lot less problems. There are, however, many other social factors which play into the graduation disgrace in this country. I am not a sociologist, nor do I pretend to be, but there are several programs which could be expanded and better funded to help end the cycle of poverty. I am in the process of writing a blog about Idol Gives Back, but I'd like to make it a little more factual than I have so far. Basically the premise of my blog is that if Fox, news Corp., were really concerned about giving money to charity they would not have been showing paid commercials during Tuesday night's broadcast. I have searched throughout the Internet to determine if the proceeds from the advertisements were turned back in to Idol gives back, but so far haven't been able to find anything. If someone does, please let me know before I put my foot in my mouth. Enough of my drivel, I better get going. Take care everyone, Quadius On 4/9/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not to hi-jack your thread but I read this week the high school > graduation in Chicago is 60%. Graduation rate in Indianapolis is less than > 50%. Detroit is the worse with 25% That kind of information hurts my heart > and soul. I'm sure that you and all will agree that an ignorant population > is easily lead down a path to a Rose Garden. > Best Wishes > W > > >
