Squawk of the Day – Dec. 6, 2015
By Submitted
Somehow the bean-counters in Atlanta have decided that graduation rates is the most important thing to show how good things are in our school systems. Nowhere is the words “educated person” ever used. I’d love to see the correlation between graduating and being educated.
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