and… on the home front:

Article: Study: Detroit Gets F In Grad Rate (via WXYZ-TV)

Seventeen of the nation’s 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday.

The report, issued by America’s Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation’s largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools, the researchers said.

Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma and about 1.2 million students drop out annually.

"When more than 1 million students a year drop out of high school, it’s more than a problem, it’s a catastrophe," said former Secretary of State Colin Powell, founding chair of the alliance.

Hmmmmmm… You don’t think it is because of that Socialism that I blogged about a while back do ya?

Of course, our Liberal Government here in Michigan and in Washington D.C. will throw more money at it and institute more entitlement programs for the problem. More Band-aids to fix the leaking dam.

Of course, the Right Wing, Christian, "Let’s take America over for Jesus Christ!!" Zealots will say, "See? this is why we need Christian schools!!!!" I got news for you, I dropped out of a Christian School, Because I was 18 years old and I wasn’t learning anything. Yes, I admit it, I have A.D.H.D.  But Honestly? As someone who spent almost all of my young life in Christian Schools, the Majority of them are ran by unqualified feckless imbeciles, who wouldn’t have a clue as to how to be a teacher.

Oh, the stories I could tell about my experiences within the realm of "Christian Schools"!  It would be enough to make a liberal squeal with glee.    

I was in a school, the last one that I was in, before I quit, that used the program called the "A.C.E. Program".  A very nice program for people, who don’t have learning disabilities. Not to mention the theological indoctrination or as some would call it, Mind control. While praised by many within the Christian Community, I had a well-known Baptist Minister admit to me, that ACE wasn’t for everyone.  It is for those so-called "Perfect Children", you know, the ones who don’t have any learning disabilities, or as I like to call them, "The Beautiful People".

Speaking of that guy, (that is if you caught the reference…) Did you know that he grew up in Church? Boy, do we have quite a bit in common!

Anyhow, there’s the story about the crap schools in Detroit. Thank God, I never went to them, Well, except for Higgins and that was only for a year or two.