You know how the Left always talks about the members of the military being idiots (except when Democrats need to win an election)? Well, then, what would this say about the liberal education system?
Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the military fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can’t answer basic math, science and reading questions.
The report by The Education Trust found that 23 percent of recent high school graduates don’t get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military. The study, released exclusively to The Associated Press on Tuesday, comes on top of Pentagon data that shows 75 percent of those aged 17 to 24 don’t qualify for the military because they are physically unfit, have a criminal record or didn’t graduate high school.
“Too many of our high school students are not graduating ready to begin college or a career — and many are not eligible to serve in our armed forces,” U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the AP. “I am deeply troubled by the national security burden created by America’s underperforming education system.”
I really don’t feel the need to add anything to that, kinda stands on its own. They sure packed quite a bit of condemnation of the liberal education system into three paragraphs, eh?
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
Teach why is it that all of the conservatives only choose to point fingers at our educational system? Why do none, like ,yourself, to enter that profession and try to make it better? Apparently conservatives have instead chose to abandon our youth. How sad is that? Liberals may not be doing well, but at least they are in their in the trenches.Until conservatives like yourself quit their high paying jobs and enter teaching they have no right to complain.
Teach the states with the lowest rates of high school grads are all in the South. Civic Report November 2001
High School Graduation Rates in the United States
Table 2: Ranking of Graduation Rates by State
State
Ranking
Graduation Rate
Georgia
51
54%
Nevada
50
58
Florida
49
59
District of Columbia
48
59
Arizona
47
59
Tennessee
46
60
South Carolina
45
62
Mississippi
44
62
Alabama
43
62
North Carolina
42
63
And we see the effects of that education every time Ryan posts.
For example, to try to make his point here, he quotes a decade old survey.
Furthermore, who knew that Nevada and the District were considered part of the south?
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