The boob tube news was on while eating dinner last night and the subject was brought up about Public or Military schools being brought to Rochester, New York to increase the on time graduation rate. At the moment the graduation rate is running at a stagnant 51%.
The consensus is that a Military School has an on time graduation rate of 97% and a dropout rate of 20% and a cost of +/- of $10,000 per student compared to +/- of $22,000 in the public school.
Another reason is taxes and a state that is trying to cut spending to education as it is to costly and there is a program for home owner's called STAR (State Tax Relief Program) they would like to see go away and save the state million's each year.
The City School Board seems to be in favor of the program and seeing the the percentages of graduation as well as truancy it probably would be better and teach some of the younger generation discipline as well as a program to make them better in the workplace and most importantly decrease taxes in the area as well as the state.
Just a little humor!
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