Why is DU not outraged at the high number of high school dropouts we have? [View All]

[dkf]

30% do not graduate from high school and we wonder why we have so many in poverty? We rail against the rich as somehow causing poverty, yet statistics show that poverty is directly correlated to education levels.

When Obama attempts to fix this all he gets is hate from people who seem to mostly care about teachers rights, not a student's right to get an education and have a good life. Even if all this testing isn't a perfect solution, where are the ideas coming from the professional educators? They seem to only come up with why Obama's approach is wrong, instead of giving us and volunteering their ideas, time and effort to produce high school graduates. I say if teachers have better ideas there is nothing stopping them.

If we insist that these kids are the problem and we can't do much about it then we need to understand we can't do anything about poverty either.